SNIPPETS Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

snippets

noun

plural of snippet

as in bits

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

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Recent Examples of snippets Instead, at the scene, detectives looked at snippets of surveillance videos stored on Burke’s phone. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 The fair booths, all inside structures that resembled the neoclassical architecture of the nearby National Gallery of Art, offered snippets of Americana to visitors. — Gary Fields, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026 The 10 tracks of Ton Up are at once his briskest and heaviest yet, miniaturizing his trademark loops of Dillafied psychedelia into speaker-rattling sample snippets that bombard uptempo house beats in dizzying volleys. — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026 So far, the only public window afforded by Oakland police into the encounter exists in a series of video snippets released in March. — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 24 June 2026 Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic’s executive producer for audio, said the company was focused on figuring out its YouTube strategy while also publishing more short-form video clips via snippets from its podcasts. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 22 June 2026 Keeping with the Day and Night theme, her official website played snippets of two different instrumentals (for 12 hours each) on June 1. — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026 The multichannel campaign included 15-second behind-the-scenes snippets on TikTok that garnered high loop rates, with high-impact posters greeting arriving jet setters at Heathrow’s baggage carousel. — Danielle Directo-Meston, HollywoodReporter, 20 June 2026 There are snippets and fragments of it found in the margins of the work day. — Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

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Noun

Unlike previous studies, which examined bits of hair and bone fragments in wolf scat to determine what the animals ate, the UC Davis researchers used DNA analysis to determine the makeup of the samples.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
But as memory makers try to build higher stacks to pack in more bits and bandwidth, experts worry this high bandwidth-memory (HBM) will trap enough heat to cook itself into oblivion.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2026

Definition of bits

Noun

One released a chaff cascade—hell’s own monsoon manifesting as specks of light, sound, and EM pulses falling through the hanging garden.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 26 June 2026
Kansas City isn't much of a pedestrian city, but now, blue and green specks of fans dot the sidewalks, like wildflowers poking through a crack in the pavement.

— Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2026

Definition of specks

Noun

The result sounds like being trapped inside a telephone switchboard, full of repeating signals, samples, and scraps.

— Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
This can include food waste, such as eggshells and old coffee, as well as compost and worm castings made from food scraps and garden debris.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 July 2026

Definition of scraps

Noun

The potential arrival of a coronal mass ejection — a cloud of magnetic fields and charged particles from the sun — may make for a stronger display overnight on Saturday, July 11, through Sunday, July 12.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
This mixture is pushed through an extruder to form tiny, sprinkle-like cylinders, which are then tumbled in a rapidly spinning chamber to round them into near-spherical particles.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026

Definition of particles

Noun

Instead of every company independently reinventing networking stacks and security patches, that work gets pooled and shared across the whole ecosystem.

— Rajesh Subramaniam, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Jersey patches have only recently become the norm across college athletics.

— Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026

Definition of patches

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The possibility of a Chase and Taylor flirtation causing a rift with Miranda is briefly raised and just as swiftly quashed — through large mouthfuls of chips and salsa, Taylor assures Miranda at the sip-and-see that there is no there there.

— Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026
But now, the future of Lucille’s American Cafe, a Weston comfort-food institution serving up mouthfuls of nostalgia since 1999, is unclear.

— Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025

Definition of mouthfuls

Noun

Harmful molecules called free radicals show up, certain enzymes start breaking down collagen and the immune system is activated.

— Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
These are ultra-thin layers composed of large organic molecules that spontaneously organize into a neat single-molecule sheet.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026

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