snipe

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Recent Examples of snipe That date was delayed after officials were afraid funding might be postponed since the president and Gov. JB Pritzker have been sniping at each other, according to a News-Sun story earlier this week by Olivia Olander of the Chicago Tribune. Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025 After a cascading series of controversies that have sniped at Snow White almost from the moment the project was announced in 2021, the House of Mouse is scaling back the movie’s premiere to just bare essentials. Chris Lee, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025 Kam Tremblay sniped the game-winning goal with 16 seconds remaining, as Billerica stunned BC High, 8-7. Dylan Lane found the net six times for Lexington in an 11-7 Middlesex League win against Belmont. Danny Ventura, Boston Herald, 20 May 2025 However, late in the first period Sunday, Bedard seized the puck after a faceoff scrum and sniped a shot from the slot with 1 minute, 48 seconds left. Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for snipe
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Verb
  • Another Leshem series that Schenker was closely involved with is Bad Boy, which peppered dozens of Netflix top 10s when it was picked up by the streamer earlier this year.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 29 July 2025
  • While family movies have always been popular and typically pepper the annual box office top-10, superhero cinema and certain other recurring tentpole franchises usually take several of the top-5 and tend to reside in the higher positions of the charts.
    Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Verb
  • Stimson walks solemnly across Beowulf Boritt’s monochrome timber monolith of a set (planks, planks everywhere) and plinks out a few notes on a piano.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Ranging as far as two miles from their operators, the tiny drones plink Russian vehicles and even chase down, and blow up, individual Russian soldiers who swat at them with rifles and sticks.
    David Axe, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024

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“Snipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snipe. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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