SNIPPET Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

snippet

noun

ˈsni-pət

Definition of snippet

as in bit

a very small piece read them a snippet of his latest poem

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Recent Examples of snippet In this case, the scammers likely took snippets of the loan officer’s voice from his social media posts and cloned it, Adams said. — Emily Elconin For Cnn, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026 In the moment, however, Martins imbues tremendous intrigue through snippets of the seemingly distracted middle-aged driver, Wesley (Renato Novaes), and eventually, through the crash itself. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Sep. 2026 In a now-viral snippet, the women from the various cities sit around a table chatting about the old times. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026 There are snippets from Moby-Dick and The Sound of Music, a nauseous memory of the Stanley Steemer man who used to soak David’s carpets with a toxic cleaning agent that squelched around his bare feet (‘Suck, suck, suck’). — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for snippet

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Noun

That bit of advice was as fruitful to Larry Golden as that swimming scholarship.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
By balancing the speed of physical random number generators with the clarity of their signals, the new device principle, in theory, can achieve processing speed yielding high bit-rate with signal clarity and stochasticity.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of bit

Noun

The period is 2006, when the golden age of streamable content is barely a speck on the media horizon.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
To make matters worse, the Houthis have captured new terrain in Yemen and acquired Perim Island, a speck of land inside the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint that better positions the Yemeni militia to intercept oil tankers.

— Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of speck

Noun

The rule also translates to an extra 90 tons a year of soot particles and 4,870 additional tons a year of smog components such as nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds emitted into the air in coming years, experts say.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
When transitioning from hard flooring to rugs or carpets, the system automatically adjusts suction levels and modifies its brush roll behavior to maximize particle pickup while preventing hair entanglements around the main rollers.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of particle

Noun

Six melts, 24 hours The foundry’s electric arc furnace uses three large graphite electrodes to melt steel scrap.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
The administration's proposal eliminates requirements for small class sizes and scraps caseload limits for family support specialists.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of scrap

Noun

All four embrace their Crew-13 designation that pays homage in their mission patch to Apollo 13.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
The first line of defense against this has been urgent security patches to fix those software flaws that had not been exploited in the pre-AI world.

— Ali El Kaafarani, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of patch

Noun

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 red meat.

— Dylan Lovan, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
Across the cove, less than a hundred yards away, another beaver swam to its lodge, also with a mouthful of sticks.

— Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of mouthful

Noun

The congress has repeatedly amended the constitution to concentrate power in Ortega’s hands and eliminate any shred of democratic independence and dissent.

— Sergio R. Bustos, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
On the greatest night of his greatest coaching feat, Sarkisian acted without grace or a shred of tact.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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