as in bits
a very small piece
read them a snippet of his latest poem
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Recent Examples of snippets
Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention.
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Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
Fox News released snippets of Hannity's interview before the full interview from Beijing airs on Thursday evening.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 May 2026
Berling’s Henri, especially, suffers from the film’s disinterest in anyone aside from its central figure; a key scene between him and Gabrielle lays out their history in clumsy expository snippets.
—Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
If the snippets above mean anything to you, congratulations—you’re officially a watch geek.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 13 May 2026
The test does repeated cycles to try to amplify specific snippets of genetic material that may be present.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
Music, both as one character’s defining trait and as a story-telling device — snippets of pop tunes across decades swiftly drive time shifts in the play’s first two acts — is a major aspect.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
The scientists also found that accuracy increased when the players communicated with snippets of code rather than natural language.
—Peter Hall, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
Listen to snippets of the trio's performance and read more about their story.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 May 2026
Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
Fox News released snippets of Hannity's interview before the full interview from Beijing airs on Thursday evening.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 May 2026
Berling’s Henri, especially, suffers from the film’s disinterest in anyone aside from its central figure; a key scene between him and Gabrielle lays out their history in clumsy expository snippets.
—Jon Frosch, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
If the snippets above mean anything to you, congratulations—you’re officially a watch geek.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 13 May 2026
The test does repeated cycles to try to amplify specific snippets of genetic material that may be present.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
Music, both as one character’s defining trait and as a story-telling device — snippets of pop tunes across decades swiftly drive time shifts in the play’s first two acts — is a major aspect.
—Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
The scientists also found that accuracy increased when the players communicated with snippets of code rather than natural language.
—Peter Hall, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
Listen to snippets of the trio's performance and read more about their story.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snippets
Noun
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In between shout-outs from the crowd, Colbert played it straight, rattling off jokes about the day’s headlines, revealing one last First Draft, and sharing shrewd bits of history about The Ed Sullivan Theater.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
22 May 2026
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Big shot guests popped up in the studio audience, including the actors Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Ryan Reynolds, who did a few bits and pattered about the host going off air; Colbert moved through the usual jokes about the day’s news.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2026
Noun
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As in Kourliandski’s quartet, specks and splatters of sound are interspersed with silences.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Their faces lost distinction, their bodies smaller and smaller and then only specks in the overvoid.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Just scrape off large food scraps and let the dishwasher clean the rest.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 May 2026
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The wastepaper baskets were filled with real scraps of newspaper.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
17 May 2026
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As dust floats through the air, static electricity can attract particles of dirt, pollen, pet dander, and dust that accumulate on the fan blades over time.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
14 May 2026
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Similar to how cosmic impacts can agitate and heat lunar regolith to liberate trapped particles from the solar wind, machines can do much the same.—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
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The person who seems least surprised by it all is Matsuzawa, perhaps the league’s only 27-year-old rookie with flecks of gray in his hair.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
15 May 2026
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Powerful new lasers and x-rays are enabling geologists like Korolev, a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, to probe increasingly small flecks of minerals in deep diamonds.—
James Dinneen,
Scientific American,
14 May 2026
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Muted guitars twirl in curlicued shapes, fleshed out by harp, woodwinds, and brass; clanking bells and mbira-like harmonics flare up in quiet patches, and background vocals fan across the stereo field.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
19 May 2026
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The dog, who is gray with white patches, was stuck in the space for two days, according to News Channel 5 Nashville.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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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
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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
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Manipulations include everything from surgically removing key tissues to implanting beads soaked with signaling molecules to injecting DNA into cells to instruct them to make a different set of proteins.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2026
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The quantum engineering of new molecules could lead to better drugs and to batteries that don’t use costly, environmentally damaging commodities such as rare earth elements.—
Zeeya Merali,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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