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
A water moccasin swam past, a dark head trailing a V-shaped ripple.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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There I met Nikola Pavlovic, a genial salesman wearing a flamingo-patterned bucket hat atop long hair, canvas moccasins and a shirt covered in psychedelic flowers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
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
They also collected Native American art, including moccasins, shirts, and beadwork that has toured the country in exhibitions.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Though these Venetian moccasins are comfy and not incredibly embarrassing to be seen with in public, your dad will surely still wear them with socks, so … what are you gonna do?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
After he left his boys’ school he reverted to his old, unkempt ways, and goes around in his moccasins and his sweaters with the worn-through elbows.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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