serpent
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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
Day in, day out, whatever the time in an always chaotic, often desperate rotation of worldly life, the warrior serpent is on duty.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024
"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
On it were six crudely carved wooden figurines of animals—a heron, a crocodile, a jackal, a serpent, a dove, and a hippo—one familiar for each god.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Vocabulary lists containing serpent
Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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Unit 5, Week 4
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 8
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