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Recent Examples of snipe
But after an offseason of sniping between the team and city and county officials—much of it ostensibly over delays in the process and potential cost overruns—the Rays withdrew from the project on March 13.
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Brett Knight, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz • Love how Misty snipes at Shauna about asking for help cleaning up Adam’s murder.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
What is stream sniping? Stream sniping is when a viewer deliberately — and often maliciously — tries to insert themselves into a live stream to hijack, derail, or otherwise disrupt the experience.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
As play moved up and down the ice and both teams just missed on passes that could have led to scoring chances, the Sabres finally cashed in on one when, from the left dot, defenseman Owen Power sniped one over Joonas Korpisalo’s shoulder.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
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Brett Knight, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz • Love how Misty snipes at Shauna about asking for help cleaning up Adam’s murder.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
What is stream sniping? Stream sniping is when a viewer deliberately — and often maliciously — tries to insert themselves into a live stream to hijack, derail, or otherwise disrupt the experience.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
As play moved up and down the ice and both teams just missed on passes that could have led to scoring chances, the Sabres finally cashed in on one when, from the left dot, defenseman Owen Power sniped one over Joonas Korpisalo’s shoulder.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 18 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snipe
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Without prior knowledge to Fatal Fury’s roster or storyline, many of the characters can seem somewhat stock — there’s a couple of tough guys with various fighting styles and cool jackets, and some cartoonishly buxom female fighters peppered in for some old school gooner bait.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2025
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Part of what makes the North Carolina mountains unique is the people who pepper the area with creativity and hospitality throughout their beloved mountain hamlets.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
20 Apr. 2025
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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
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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 3 May. 2025.
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