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snake

[snayk] / sneɪk /
NOUN
reptile
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As for the surviving animals, they are being looked after at a snake farm in Germany.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Beyond its extraordinary size, Vasuki provides evidence of an ancient branch of snake evolution.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Although anacondas are evolutionarily distinct from Vasuki, the research offers a useful comparison for understanding how different snake lineages became giants and adapted to their environments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

I’d been baptized and raised in a mainstream Kentucky Protestant church, but my father had shared childhood stories of snake handling and speaking in tongues in his Pentecostal Appalachian congregation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

As she got closer, she could see it was a snake.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

They did not find any drugs, but vipers, rattlesnakes and other species of snakes and lizards, including iguanas, hidden in shampoo and cream bottles, plastic containers and balls of socks.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

The species belonged to Madtsoiidae, an extinct family of snakes that survived for roughly 100 million years, from the Late Cretaceous to the Late Pleistocene.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Researchers examining fossilized anaconda vertebrae from Venezuela found that these enormous snakes had already evolved large bodies by approximately 12.4 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

"I saw some snakes, which I was a little bit worried about, but actually they were pretty chill. They were just doing their thing," said Bottas.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Or parachutes, in a world that is otherwise full of snakes, and leopards, and Committee men, tornadoes, bullies, and death.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

A line snaked around the temple’s restaurant, known for vegetarian noodles that cost about $2 a bowl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

A queue of hundreds of people who came to pay their respects snaked around the venue on Monday morning with thousands expected over the course of the day.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Cars honking their horns snaked through the capital of the small South American country that does not usually get a lot of attention for anything.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Turner snaked through the gauntlet, as his teammates playfully slapped and shoved him around.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Throngs of people were jockeying for position in ticket lines that snaked up and down the block.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

After a five-hour wait for petrol, Mongolian pensioner Nasanjargal is still 10 places from the pump, with dozens of cars behind him in a queue snaking into the arid steppe.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The clicky videos, the snaking lines of customers, the grandiose launch parties—it echoes similar consumer hype trends of the past, like McDonald’s hyperviral Travis Scott Meal or infamous Rick and Morty–fueled Szechuan Sauce incident.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

Jeers to a snaking Delta baggage-drop line in Minneapolis last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

One of his top sights at the Qatar tournament was thousands of their passionate fans snaking in long, noisy lines into and out of metro stations.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

The door opens before we even ring the bell, and this hand comes snaking out and reaches for the mailbox and finds this rolled-up newspaper and pulls it back inside.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick


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