as in bit
a very small piece
read them a snippet of his latest poem
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Recent Examples of snippet
In one snippet, he’s swallowed by a crowd of fans.
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Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
Disney said there will also be lots of places guests won’t recognize because only snippets of Monstropolis have ever been seen on screen.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Swanson, who walked the Cupshe runway the next day at Temple House in a red one-piece, shared a snippet from the Faena party on Instagram, posing with Patton, decked out in vintage Chanel.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
Donovan described more than 30 people coming and going during the approximately two-week rental period in April, with his Ring camera capturing snippets of outdoor conversations in which people discussed taking shifts.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
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Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
Disney said there will also be lots of places guests won’t recognize because only snippets of Monstropolis have ever been seen on screen.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Swanson, who walked the Cupshe runway the next day at Temple House in a red one-piece, shared a snippet from the Faena party on Instagram, posing with Patton, decked out in vintage Chanel.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 June 2026
Donovan described more than 30 people coming and going during the approximately two-week rental period in April, with his Ring camera capturing snippets of outdoor conversations in which people discussed taking shifts.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snippet
Noun
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Sunday brings a little bit of everything.—
Damien Lodes,
CBS News,
13 June 2026
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Drill bit makers who serve the oil and gas industry are replacing tungsten drill bits with steel, which wears more quickly.—
Ari Sen,
Scientific American,
13 June 2026
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The machine-like efficiency is terrifying, right up until a single speck of dirt falls into the gears.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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This looks like tiny black or reddish-brown specks that resemble coffee grounds.—
Emily Hayes,
Martha Stewart,
9 June 2026
Noun
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For more than a decade, MAVEN circled Mars in a highly elliptical orbit, measuring particles escaping into space and observing how the atmosphere responded to solar activity.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
17 June 2026
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Their fabric, paper, or textured surfaces attract airborne particles that often go unnoticed until they're viewed in bright daylight.—
Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
16 June 2026
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Meyers alleges parts painted red to mark them as scrap were reincorporated into manufacturing lines – again, so ambitious production targets would be kept.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
19 June 2026
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Those who worked in Wall Street offices around the parade route have been known to throw the paper scraps out of the windows and down over the city as part of the celebration.—
Matt Nighswander,
NBC news,
18 June 2026
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Fans are still aghast that Destiny 2 has reached the end of service, with the game not just wrapping up its content updates but also any level of support, with no more balance patches or even hotfixes to come, aside from one or two urgent ones.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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At the time, certain teams wore BLM patches and stenciled the BLM logo onto the pitcher’s mounds.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
19 June 2026
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But flecks of green were visible throughout the stadium as Algeria fans made their presence known as well.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
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There are also flecks of red embedded throughout the pattern.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 June 2026
Noun
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But cases are on the rise as more people report symptoms such as hives, diarrhea and itchiness after eating as little as a mouthful of meat and — in some cases — dairy.—
Matthew Perrone,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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But cases are on the rise as more people report symptoms such as hives, diarrhea and itchiness after eating as little as a mouthful of meat and — in some cases — dairy.—
Matthew Perrone,
Fortune,
13 June 2026
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Trump’s appreciation for and emulation of the histrionics of that sport have been much discussed over the years—recall how the late Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt to shreds at the 2024 Republican National Convention to reveal a TRUMP VANCE T-shirt underneath.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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The industry has been keeping a close eye on what Koosha and his producer Tom Rogers have been doing — namely, conjuring a movie out of thin air without a single shred of an actor, location, crew member or camera.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
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“Snippet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snippet. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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