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rattler

[rat-ler] / ˈræt lər /
NOUN
freight train
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"The four of us -- my husband, our two children, and I were on the bed," when the 7.7-magnitude rattler stuck just north of Flores island at around 5.30 am on Saturday.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

The first rattler occurred at a depth of 3.4 miles, and the largest quake was shallower, at 0.1 miles.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2024

Whatever it was they found it in Boyd Fortin, a 13-year-old with blond locks and the carcass of a rattler in his hands.

From New York Times Apr. 25, 2023

On more than one occasion he's found himself under a house or a trailer in the wee hours of darkness tracking down a copperhead or rattler that needs to be moved.

From Scientific American Sep. 18, 2022

But he was remembering a walk with Toomer in the black-gum swamp of St. Catherine’s Island when Toomer had come across the track of a large Eastern Diamondback rattler.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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