as in shaved
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument
snipped the loose ends
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Recent Examples of snipped
During that show, Ono sat silently onstage while members of the audience slowly snipped away pieces of her clothes.
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Julius Miller
follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
The recovered birds were taken to a secure loft near Brussels, overseen by Belgium's national pigeon federation, and police arranged for DNA testing to match each bird to its rightful owner since the identification rings on all the pigeon's legs had been snipped off.
—Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films.
—Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
These offspring can be snipped off and planted to create new plants.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2026
Sugar libel was snipped from both bills.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
Typically snipped slightly blunt and subtly disconnected from heavy face-framing layers, crescent bangs read clean (sometimes fringey) and editorial.
—Amanda Le, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
But the cast and director confirm the moment was snipped purely for narrative reasons, and not because the shot felt too explicit for theaters.
—Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
Publishers argued that dominant online platforms, especially those of Google and Meta, use news content and divert ad revenue from news publications, with most searches ending at the results page with answers snipped from online news articles that don’t require clicking through to news websites.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
Julius Miller
follow, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
The recovered birds were taken to a secure loft near Brussels, overseen by Belgium's national pigeon federation, and police arranged for DNA testing to match each bird to its rightful owner since the identification rings on all the pigeon's legs had been snipped off.
—Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
Mr Cobra evades most classification from there, blending free jazz, musique concrète, ’00s pop, house, industrial techno, and air horns, interlaced with dialogue snipped from Korean folk operas and experimental films.
—Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2026
These offspring can be snipped off and planted to create new plants.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2026
Sugar libel was snipped from both bills.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
Typically snipped slightly blunt and subtly disconnected from heavy face-framing layers, crescent bangs read clean (sometimes fringey) and editorial.
—Amanda Le, InStyle, 26 Feb. 2026
But the cast and director confirm the moment was snipped purely for narrative reasons, and not because the shot felt too explicit for theaters.
—Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
Publishers argued that dominant online platforms, especially those of Google and Meta, use news content and divert ad revenue from news publications, with most searches ending at the results page with answers snipped from online news articles that don’t require clicking through to news websites.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snipped
Verb
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Stone famously shaved off all of her hair in 2024 for her role in Bugonia.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
21 May 2026
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One French director, Xavier Gens, told Reuters here that AI tools could have cut the visual effects budget of his Netflix hit Under Paris in half and shaved eight months off the schedule.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
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The rooms Rooms are decorated in a cool, muted Pacific Northwest palette—soft shades, brass accents, and heavy drapes that cut the light just right.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 May 2026
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Jake and Violet finally get married — and Station 42 gets to cut loose on the dance floor.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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In multiple cases, other road users struck the autonomous vehicle from behind or clipped it while passing.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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Posts can be clipped out of context or interpreted as official positions.—
Adam Goodcoff,
STAT,
13 May 2026
Verb
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Saudi Arabia and the UAE trimmed their holdings of US Treasurys in March by nearly $17 billion, as the Iran conflict hit crude exports, their key source of dollar income.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
19 May 2026
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Some limbs were trimmed from the large trees that provide shade.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
18 May 2026
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“Snipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snipped. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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