snipped

past tense of snip

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of snipped Even the tips of his sox, which were sticking out of holes in his shoes, were summarily snipped off with scissors. Clare Conley, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025 Use a small piping bag with a tiny round tip or a zip-top bag with the corner snipped off to pipe a single white line down the center of each cookie. Gretchen McKay, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2025 The sound, meanwhile, is specifically snipped from a conversation between Anne Hathaway's Andrea Sachs and Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly in the 2006 film. Skyler Caruso, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Variety can report that a divisive monologue performed by Strong in the film’s official trailer has been snipped from the final product, the result of a creative decision by director Scott Cooper, per one source. Matt Donnelly, Variety, 31 Aug. 2025 In that environment, incomplete or out-of-context information is often snipped, packaged to fit predisposed narratives and then rapidly amplified across text, short-form video or audio content. David Ingram, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snipped
Verb
  • The fallout, which sparked criticisms that Disney was caving on free-speech issues and drew some threats from Hollywood talent to stop working with the company, shaved more than $4 billion off its market value last week.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • While solid materials can easily be shaved down, these chambers need to have enough space for coolant to travel through channels.
    Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vance said one portion of Democrats are making unreasonable demands to restore more than $1 trillion over the next decade in healthcare spending that was cut earlier this year.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Training, professional development, and the Safe Cities Partnership are among the areas cut.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An eyewitness tells 12 News that the drones clipped the crane's cable and plummeted to the ground.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The moment — delivered by Steinfeld’s character Mary on a humid New Orleans train platform — was clipped, memed and replayed across TikTok, igniting think pieces and parodies alike.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The logo, hands, indexes, and rotor are trimmed in British racing green—the color of the legendary car brand.
    Carol Besler, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Her dark brown bob was freshly trimmed and curled toward her face; the top brushed and styled over the left side of her head.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Snipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snipped. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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