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Recent Examples of moccasin
Native American Heritage Month activities on Nov. 6 will include talks by Flores, a member of the Oneida nation, on construction and design styles of moccasins worn by different Wisconsin tribal nations.
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Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
But Lee doesn’t want to turn up at the Indian store looking like a white guy shopping for moccasins.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
But what are moccasin shoes, anyway?
—Kelsey Stewart, Glamour, 15 Oct. 2025
Their moccasin-like sole makes the boots comfortable to walk in, while the durable waterproof leather keeps your feet dry.
—Christopher Murray
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The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake is even the official state reptile.—
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No trail, just rock after rock, a phantom rattlesnake curled in every crevice.—
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Scientists have captured high-speed video of venomous snake strikes, including this dramatic footage of a copperhead.—
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As the leaves turn to shades of orange and brown, a copperhead snake starts to blend perfectly into its habitat.—
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Practical side zippers with gold hardware closed the shaft and left the python upper uninterrupted through the front and sides.—
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Somehow Bonet’s Burmese python got into one of the walls in the house.—
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The show featured other Minter heroes, including Jane Fonda giving the finger and two large-scale odalisques: Padma Lakshmi, in a bra and a boa, eating oranges, and Lizzo, in a corset, holding an iPhone.—
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At the New York premiere of her upcoming film, , Sweeney arrived alongside co-star Amanda Seyfried wearing a low-cut, glitzy silver Miu Miu floor-length gown, finished with a dramatic feather boa.—
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The Cape coral cobra (Aspidelaps lubricus) and the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), act in a more stealthy fashion.—
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Cleopatra was imprisoned in her palace, and legend has it that an ally brought her a basket of figs, and hidden within was the cobra that gave the Egyptian queen that fatal bite.—
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These are one of four venomous snakes found in Texas alongside rattlesnakes, cottonmouths (also known as water moccasins) and coral snakes.—
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Also known as a water moccasin, this darkly colored—usually near-black or olive brown—snake isn’t aggressive, but its bite is fatal without rapid administration of an antivenom.—
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For example, an adult black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), one of the planet’s deadliest elapids, regularly grows upwards of 10 feet long.—
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Powell County paramedic Eddie Barnes and one of his team members were called to the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in May after the zoo’s co-director, James Harrison, was bitten by a poisonous mamba snake, local news outlet LEX 18 reported.—
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Mecum Auctions also mentions that the car later played a minor role in the production of the classic motorsport movie Grand Prix, as racer Bob Bondurant tested mobile camera rigging with it (shown here).—
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His mother competed as a barrel racer and trick rider.—
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“Moccasin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/moccasin. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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