moccasin
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Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
He and his brother gave their father, who had been wiped out, $20,000 each from their trust funds to start a new business: importing shoes, in particular a moccasin, from Brazil.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
The report cites an account that the name was inspired by an imprint shaped like a woman’s moccasin in a granite rock pointing toward the valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
As he walked the fence line, Curly was pleased not to come across a single cottonmouth moccasin.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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“I had a fully beaded diaper bag. I had beaded moccasins before I could walk.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Born on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Gladstone has worn tennis shoes, scuffed boots and fur-trimmed moccasins for publicity appearances, often with another accessory or pattern that recalls her Siksikaitsitapi and Nez Perce heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
In Vegas, she and Missi both wore moccasins made by an aunt.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
We three stood shivering in the thin New Hampshire morning light, Finny and I in pajamas, Brinker in a blue flannel bathrobe and ripped moccasins.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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