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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

Jesse Wente, the board chair of Canada’s Council of the Arts and member of the Serpent River First Nation, first watched Obomsawin’s 1984 documentary “Incident at Restigouche” at age 10.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023

When the captain retires for afternoon tea, or whatever a man like him does with his free time, I climb to the crow’s nest, to get as far away from the Abyssal Serpent as possible.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman




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