as in bits
a very small piece
read them a snippet of his latest poem
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Recent Examples of snippets
Instead, at the scene, detectives looked at snippets of surveillance videos stored on Burke’s phone.
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Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2026
The fair booths, all inside structures that resembled the neoclassical architecture of the nearby National Gallery of Art, offered snippets of Americana to visitors.
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Gary Fields,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2026
The 10 tracks of Ton Up are at once his briskest and heaviest yet, miniaturizing his trademark loops of Dillafied psychedelia into speaker-rattling sample snippets that bombard uptempo house beats in dizzying volleys.
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Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
26 June 2026
So far, the only public window afforded by Oakland police into the encounter exists in a series of video snippets released in March.
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Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic’s executive producer for audio, said the company was focused on figuring out its YouTube strategy while also publishing more short-form video clips via snippets from its podcasts.
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Max Tani,
semafor.com,
22 June 2026
Keeping with the Day and Night theme, her official website played snippets of two different instrumentals (for 12 hours each) on June 1.
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Jaeden Pinder,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
The multichannel campaign included 15-second behind-the-scenes snippets on TikTok that garnered high loop rates, with high-impact posters greeting arriving jet setters at Heathrow’s baggage carousel.
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Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2026
There are snippets and fragments of it found in the margins of the work day.
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Esther K. Choy,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2026
The fair booths, all inside structures that resembled the neoclassical architecture of the nearby National Gallery of Art, offered snippets of Americana to visitors.
—
Gary Fields,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2026
The 10 tracks of Ton Up are at once his briskest and heaviest yet, miniaturizing his trademark loops of Dillafied psychedelia into speaker-rattling sample snippets that bombard uptempo house beats in dizzying volleys.
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Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
26 June 2026
So far, the only public window afforded by Oakland police into the encounter exists in a series of video snippets released in March.
—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
24 June 2026
Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic’s executive producer for audio, said the company was focused on figuring out its YouTube strategy while also publishing more short-form video clips via snippets from its podcasts.
—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
22 June 2026
Keeping with the Day and Night theme, her official website played snippets of two different instrumentals (for 12 hours each) on June 1.
—
Jaeden Pinder,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
The multichannel campaign included 15-second behind-the-scenes snippets on TikTok that garnered high loop rates, with high-impact posters greeting arriving jet setters at Heathrow’s baggage carousel.
—
Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2026
There are snippets and fragments of it found in the margins of the work day.
—
Esther K. Choy,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snippets
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Screwdriver bits attach to the tool with a magnet, and the Vulyx itself can magnetically stick to any metallic surface.
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The Ed Sullivan Theater, which first opened in 1927, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.
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One released a chaff cascade—hell’s own monsoon manifesting as specks of light, sound, and EM pulses falling through the hanging garden.
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Kansas City isn't much of a pedestrian city, but now, blue and green specks of fans dot the sidewalks, like wildflowers poking through a crack in the pavement.
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Bearden showed people a how to see African American life through paper scraps.
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Jan Paul van Hecke of the Netherlands has been involved in two scraps already, the latest when he was hit while going for a header and crumbled, perhaps exaggerating a tad, after Morocco's Azzedine Ounahi challenged the header, as well.
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Axiom Materials will test how advanced materials perform against rain, hail, and airborne particles.
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Those particles may have been grinding in the joint, causing mechanical wear on the cobalt-chromium femoral head that released cobalt into the surrounding tissue and bloodstream.
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Light streams through the frosted glass, catching flecks of dust.
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But flecks of green were visible throughout the stadium as Algeria fans made their presence known as well.
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Are manufacturers producing vehicles that need regular software patches?
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The players would sit in chairs on the side of a training pitch while staffers outfitted them with a pack around their abdomen and patches on their head.
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The possibility of a Chase and Taylor flirtation causing a rift with Miranda is briefly raised and just as swiftly quashed — through large mouthfuls of chips and salsa, Taylor assures Miranda at the sip-and-see that there is no there there.
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But now, the future of Lucille’s American Cafe, a Weston comfort-food institution serving up mouthfuls of nostalgia since 1999, is unclear.
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This allowed small molecules and ions to diffuse into and out of the SpudCell.
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Others, like Otto, try to build cells with molecules that differ from those found in Earth biology.
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“Snippets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snippets. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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