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moccasin

[mok-uh-sin, -zuhn] / ˈmɒk ə sɪn, -zən /
NOUN
slipper
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Then with my own kids making their own memories, watching the peanut butter being made, choosing moccasins from the now-gone moccasin shop at the Dell.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2024

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

He and his brother gave their father, who had been wiped out, $20,000 each from their trust funds to start a new business: importing shoes, in particular a moccasin, from Brazil.

From New York Times Jul. 2, 2022

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

Born on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Gladstone has worn tennis shoes, scuffed boots and fur-trimmed moccasins for publicity appearances, often with another accessory or pattern that recalls her Siksikaitsitapi and Nez Perce heritage.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 2024

In Vegas, she and Missi both wore moccasins made by an aunt.

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

One pair of moccasins in the collection was taken by a U.S. soldier from the feet of a slain Lakota leader, the newspapers reported.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2023

But I did not do so, for I had always obeyed my mother— whose love for me was as certain as the firmness of the sacred earth beneath my moccasins.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac




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