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serpent

[sur-puhnt] / ˈsɜr pənt /
NOUN
reptile
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We learn that the enormous feathered serpent Kukulkan was raised by his sister—and that he rattles the earth every year to let her know he’s still alive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

What the pair found was a desert highway that rolls up and down, like an asphalt serpent, with deadly blind peaks and treacherous hidden troughs.

From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026

And as their fervor grows, so too does his confidence, an ouroboros of mutual reinforcement, a serpent devouring its own tail.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2025

"I don’t know this snake, this snake don’t know me," she declared, then screamed as someone tried to remove the serpent from her body.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2024

They had learned, they said, and knew for a fact, that her husband was not a man, but the fearful serpent Apollo’s oracle had declared he would be.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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