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serpent

[sur-puhnt] / ˈsɜr pənt /
NOUN
reptile
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John Kani was on his way to joining the Umkhonto We Sizwe paramilitary wing in 1965 when he took a detour to a Serpent Players drama group rehearsal in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

“This Is Where the Serpent Lives” has that kind of ambition and captures its world in the same exhilarating and unsparing way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Two American Black Hawk helicopters crashed in which city in 1993 during part of Operation Gothic Serpent?

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2024

At the press opening for the Metropolitan Museum’s beyond-beautiful “Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E.,” five red-robed monks chanted Pali blessings, the vocalized equivalent of oceanic silence.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023

“If the Abyssal Serpent sees you as worthy of its attention, that speaks very well of you. It means there’s much more to you than meets the eye.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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