racer

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Recent Examples of racer In fact, three of the top racers in the standings entering this weekend's race at Dover Motor Speedway are Hendrick Motorsports racers, with Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson rounding out the top three. Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 Singer and actress Dua Lipa and American actor turned racer Patrick Dempsey were spotted at the event, while popular F1 names included Williams team principal James Vowles, McLaren CEO Zak Brown, former F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone, and the Haas F1 team. Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025 Dave Kallmann shares the story of a sprint car racer whose multiple myeloma diagnosis hasn't stopped him yet. Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 14 July 2025 Not that the Carlsbad resident and three-time Funny Car champion drag racer hasn’t thought about his future lately. Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for racer
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Noun
  • Cottonmouth snake size How to identify a rattlesnake The habitat range of rattlesnakes reaches across the majority of the United States, primarily in the desert, mountains, prairies and along coastlines.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • California is also home to seven species of venomous rattlesnakes, The Sacramento Bee previously reported.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The garter snakes were all safely released on the same property away from where the crews were digging.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The Sierra garter snake told us this is not the case.
    Sean Greene, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For the India episode involving acutely venomous cobras, the production needed to be sure to stay within a half-hour’s drive from the hospital, setting up a potential race against time given that anti-venom cannot be administered in any other setting.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Mar. 2025
  • When a bird looks to eat it, the moth’s wings, which can span 10 inches, open and reveal what looks like two heads of a cobra, scaring the bird away.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Apartments would transform into humid hothouses, the perfect habitat for mosquitoes, water snakes, fungus, and rushes.
    Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 5 June 2025
  • Waterfowl glided near us, a water snake slithered by.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • State Reptile: The black racer snake, adopted in 1995.
    Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • It was created in 2014 and honors the late German designer’s legacy, from his sunglasses to his suits and dazzling black racer gloves.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Scott Reef is a remote ecosystem millions of years old that’s home to a diverse array of marine life including endangered dusky sea snakes and migratory pygmy blue whales.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 May 2025
  • Take, for example, a species of sea snake that inhabits the inland bays of New Caledonia, an island in the Pacific Ocean.
    Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Until the early 20th century, stories of shark attacks were considered mariners’ tall tales, lumped in with mermaid and sea serpent sightings.
    Hans Walters, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
  • Start with her novel The Essex Serpent, which brings a contemporary psychoanalytical lens to a lurid Victorian fantasia of a plot about a massive sea serpent terrorizing a small town.
    Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Noun
  • According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, between 7,000 to 8,000 people are bit by a venomous snake (including rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths and coral snakes) in the U.S. each year.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • In mouse trials, the antidote was found to be protective against venom from the black mamba, king cobra, coral snakes and tiger snakes, among others.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025

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