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serpent

[sur-puhnt] / ˈsɜr pənt /
NOUN
reptile
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Father Carlos Martins, for example, produces an Exorcist Files podcast with 40,000 followers on YouTube that promises to take viewers through his experiences “battling the ancient serpent in many forms.”

From Slate Jun. 8, 2026

The biblical passage recounts how the serpent, typically interpreted as the devil in Christian theology, tempted Eve to sin by eating the forbidden fruit.

From Salon May 17, 2026

The name Vasuki indicus honors the mythical serpent associated with the Hindu deity Shiva, as well as the country where the fossil was found.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2026

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

In return Apollo sent a pestilence, and Poseidon the sea serpent.

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

Like endless, dormant serpents, the colossal concrete casing of the pipelines stretched along the seabed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Think animal jewelry — bridles, straps and other harness parts adorned with eagle heads, rosettes, griffins, busts of Herakles, serpents and lions, often shaped from gold.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2025

Elapid snakes are venomous and among the deadliest serpents in the world.

From Science Daily Mar. 26, 2024

Since the scroll was first translated 60 years ago, researchers have fiercely debated the identities of the serpents it describes.

From Science Magazine Oct. 16, 2023

And there they would hang in chartless nothing, seemingly without speed or left or right or top or bottom, until as suddenly as ever the copper penny glowed and the serpents writhed.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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