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as in serpent
a limbless reptile with a long body
snakes are cold-blooded, so they regulate their body temperature by alternately basking in sunlight and seeking shade
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as in dog
a person whose behavior is offensive to others
why, that dirty, rotten snake!
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as in traitor
one who betrays a trust or an allegiance
what a snake she was—having an affair with my husband while I was in the hospital!
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Recent Examples of snake
Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2025
The two women, along with Bonet's pet snake, stayed in Swift's house for about two weeks while the owner was away, Kravitz recalled on Tuesday's episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
The Plowshare Project dreamt up idealistic, peacetime applications, such as reversing the course of rivers, triggering small earthquakes to prevent large ones from forming, flooding desserts, and, above all, snaking out a Central American canal with fewer vulnerabilities.
—Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
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Noun
The Timber rattlesnake is the largest and most dangerous of the four venomous snakes found in Tennessee, according to the state's Wildlife Resource Agency.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2025
The two women, along with Bonet's pet snake, stayed in Swift's house for about two weeks while the owner was away, Kravitz recalled on Tuesday's episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
The pool snakes for about a quarter-mile and is cushioned by mangroves that provide ample space for the slick animal to hide.
—Jack Prator, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
The Plowshare Project dreamt up idealistic, peacetime applications, such as reversing the course of rivers, triggering small earthquakes to prevent large ones from forming, flooding desserts, and, above all, snaking out a Central American canal with fewer vulnerabilities.
—Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snake
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The serpent is reclaiming the land, and the symbol is creation and transformation in Mesoamerican culture.—
Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
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Ironically, Louis Vuitton finds itself in a position best expressed by the mythic ouroboros symbol – the serpent that eats its own tail.—
Pamela N. Danziger,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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According to LifeLine, the DeKalb shelter takes in 135 dogs a week on average.—
Jim Gaines,
ajc,
13 Sep. 2023
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The remains were found by two men who were running their dogs and looking for rocks, according to DNASolves.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Sep. 2023
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Such an admission would mean that his family would never be safe again, since they’d forever be associated with a traitor.—
Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
22 Aug. 2025
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The fort, which overlooks the Thames River, was the site of an 1781 massacre led by the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold.—
Ashley Craig,
Hartford Courant,
9 Aug. 2025
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The soldiers feared the possibility of some Indigenous having ties to guerrilla groups who lurk in the jungle; the Indigenous could sense that suspicion and also felt the military didn’t respect their ancient and intimate knowledge of the jungle.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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Two lead but Scheffler lurking into FedEx Cup finale: Tommy Fleetwood and Patrick Cantlay are tie for first at minus-16 in the Tour Championship in Atlanta to decide the FexEx Cup winner -- the PGA Tour’s de facto fifth major.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
24 Aug. 2025
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Adam crawls along the floor, left, about to put his finger in an electrical outlet, right, while his baby watches from afar.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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This setup enabled the robots to crawl using sequential contractions and relaxation—much like a caterpillar.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
12 Aug. 2025
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How to identify venomous snakes in Texas Texas is home to four venomous snakes, three of which belong to the same family — the pit vipers.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
31 July 2025
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These creatures included a spider, a snail, dog, bull, maggot, cockroach, two kinds of snake (a viper and a grass snake), and ants.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
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Soto arrived to the United States from the Dominican Republic in June 2024, sneaking across the border in El Paso, Texas, police sources said.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
18 Aug. 2025
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Despite working on The Tortured Poets Department for a few years, Swift found some time to sneak in a few songs about her latest romance on the album.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
14 Aug. 2025
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The neighborhood drug dealing and violence eventually crept all the way up to the family's front porch, where one of her uncles was fatally shot, just seven months after her grandmother died.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Long before current inflationary problems, theater tickets had been creeping up for years in pricing, as the cost of running a show skyrocketed.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Snake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snake. Accessed 4 Sep. 2025.
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