garter
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When mice invaded his house, he didn’t poison them but enlisted the help of a garter snake he found outside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
The Sierra garter snake told us this is not the case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Lacking Spotify, they decided to pass the time by undertaking “an enumeration and actual count” of road-killed animals—a battered weasel here, a flattened garter snake there.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
For the first time, researchers — employing an innovative twist on the mirror test — have found evidence that garter snakes can distinguish themselves from others, using not sight but scent.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
We stored them in the musty shed across the parking lot from Scanlan, stacked atop one another from September through May, nesting grounds for spiders and the occasional rat or garter snake.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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Men could wear blouses and shirts on the outside, while women could do away with their corsets, stockings, and garters.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 9, 2024
Elasticized waistbands, knee-high socks and garters, painted a picture of comfortable chic.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
But a Suffering Bastard or a Zombie doesn’t belong in a dark, speakeasy-inspired space, fussed over by an exacting bartender wearing arm garters.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2019
"When I think now of a Victorian woman lacing up her corset, tying her garters and buttoning her dress, I think of a woman dressing sensibly for a hard day of work ahead."
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2013
Hanging on the posts at the head of Mitch’s bed are his mum garters from freshman and sophomore year homecoming.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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