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asp

noun

as in adder

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Recent Examples of asp The following year Antony died by suicide, and Cleopatra took her own life soon after, reportedly dying from an asp’s poison. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026 Then, as legend holds, the queen let a poisonous asp bite her, choosing death with Antony over life under Octavian’s rule. —

Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 16 Feb. 2026 Rather than allowing herself to be captured by the Romans, legend has it that Cleopatra let a poisonous asp bite her in Alexandria, according to the documentary. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025 Among the caterpillars Walker has studied are puss, or asp, caterpillars, whose stings can be excruciating. —

Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025 In the palazzo, the principessa, who seemed too young and chic for this antique place, led me through the Fencing Room, the Music Room, the Red Room, the Green Room, the Conversation Room, and the Suicide Room—named for a painting of Cleopatra clutching her asp. —

Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024 But this area of research could mean that one day, the asp caterpillar’s venom could bring not only pain but relief. —

Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023 Egypt fell to Rome in 30 B.C., after Caesar Augustus (at that time still called Octavian) defeated the forces of Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium, and the Queen, according to a version given by Plutarch—and then, memorably, by Shakespeare—placed an asp on her breast and died. —

The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021

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As the days get warmer, lizards and common adders come out, too.

— Irenie Forshaw, TheWeek, 2 Apr. 2026
And after that gets done, the next step is concatenating them to create a full adder, because that is the fundamental computing logic component.

— Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2026