snuffs

present tense third-person singular of snuff

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Recent Examples of snuffs Then is too stoic to open up, but then the appearance of the book magically snuffs out that flicker of tension. Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuffs
Verb
  • Luz inserts the construction pole; Susana sniffs.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
  • The look of sheer repressed, stymied rage/laughter on Raph’s face when Paul sniffs the Oreos instead is one of the episode’s biggest laughs.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • That assassinates Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparking retaliatory attacks by Iran across the Middle East.
    Jill Lawrence, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Soleimani assassination | Trump orders a drone strike in Iraq that assassinates Qasem Soleimani, an influential Iranian military commander.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • When choosing a fresh pineapple, look for one that feels heavy and smells lightly sweet near the base.
    Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 3 July 2026
  • Freshwater showers mean the sweaty smells of young adults doing manual labor never get too intense.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Moriarty has reported on the yogurt shop murders for over 30 years.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Not the family stuff, like Natalie’s spontaneous nipple piercing after making out with Cady’s maybe-daughter, Nevaeh (Malia Pyles), who later murders her own mother after kissing her, for way too long, on the mouth.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • The chemical is particularly tough on the human respiratory system and, depending on how much a person inhales, MMA can cause everything from sore throats and cough to dizziness, nausea and, at the highest levels, damage to the nervous system, Kleinman said.
    Sierra van der Brug, Oc Register, 23 May 2026
Verb
  • Kerry Washington completely dismissing Seth Meyers’s home life absolutely slays.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • With the Land Rover Terrain Response System offering modes comprising Eco, Dynamic, Grass/Gravel/Snow, Mud & Ruts, Sand, Rock Crawl, and Wade, the tech takes the geographic and meteorological elements and slays them with a flick of a control.
    John Scott Lewinski, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, heatstroke kills around 40 kids in cars every year.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Aemond kills the old man anyway, and then kills his sons, though not before being stabbed in the back himself.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • But changing how the world executes agreements was never just about software.
    Keith Krach, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • This command executes malicious code inside the AppleScript directly.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

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“Snuffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffs. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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