Definition of snippet
: a small part, piece, or thing; especially : a brief quotable passage
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Examples of snippet in a Sentence
snippets from the author's newest novel
read them a snippet of his latest poem
Recent Examples of snippet from the Web
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Because typing Chinese characters is more laborious than Western ones, people also tend to use voice-recognition services more often than in the West, so firms have more voice snippets with which to improve speech offerings.
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Or, certainly, some part of Hamlet: snippets from the seven famous soliloquies, a brooding man holding a skull, Reviving Ophelia.
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One snippet of overheard conversation suggested things had not gone well.
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The free Seeing AI app, available for iOS, can read out short snippets of text, describe people, identify products and currency denominations, and take a stab at identifying the objects in a person’s surroundings.
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A Ghost Story has a keen understanding of the human obsession with things, with details, with tiny snippets of memories—
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Instead, the researchers compared around 20,000 mitochondrial DNA snippets from their bone sample with the mitochondrial genomes of horses, rhinos, tapirs and wild llamas.
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More than 100 readers share the duty, reading snippets as a camera provides close-ups of their faces.
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This phenomenon, the official said, often results in people around the president hearing snippets of his internal monologue and taking it as gospel.
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Origin and Etymology of snippet
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SNIPPET Defined for English Language Learners
snippet
playDefinition of snippet for English Language Learners
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: a small piece of information or news
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: a small part of something (such as a piece of music, a conversation, etc.)
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