moccasin
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Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
The report cites an account that the name was inspired by an imprint shaped like a woman’s moccasin in a granite rock pointing toward the valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
She wore a dark jacket over a sky-blue, rainbow-trimmed ribbon skirt embroidered with imagery of butterflies, stars and corn; moccasin boots; a turquoise and silver belt and necklace; and dragonfly earrings.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
The kid who suggests the Shoemakers in honor of the old moccasin factory is laughed out of the auditorium.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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“It’s the most fun you can have with your moccasins on,” Real Bird, 73, jokingly tells crowds.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Dressed in tan pants and tan lace-up moccasins with a pale blue shawl wrapped around her shoulders, she walked for a quarter of a mile before stepping off the path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Littlefeather, who was 26 at the time, cut a regal figure — wearing moccasins and a tasseled dress, her long, dark hair parted and clipped with intricate beadwork.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
The moccasins were so big my feet squeaked and squished in them, like they’d been plunged in a bucket of water.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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