as in bits
a very small piece
read them a snippet of his latest poem
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Recent Examples of snippets
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.
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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.
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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.
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Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2026
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,
16 June 2026
There are snippets and fragments of it found in the margins of the work day.
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Esther K. Choy,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Hours after the Summer House reunion taping wrapped, an individual (still not publicly identified) leaked three audio snippets.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
Listen to snippets of the musical and read more about Sting's inspiration for the story.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
10 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.
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Eve Chen,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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
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.
—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
16 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
Hours after the Summer House reunion taping wrapped, an individual (still not publicly identified) leaked three audio snippets.
—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
10 June 2026
Listen to snippets of the musical and read more about Sting's inspiration for the story.
—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
10 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snippets
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Add shortening and continue cutting in until flour is pale yellow and resembles coarse cornmeal with butter bits no larger than small peas.
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The Spanish architect Marina Otero Verzier highlights efforts to preserve the entire island nation of Tuvalu as a series of digital bits.
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One released a chaff cascade—hell’s own monsoon manifesting as specks of light, sound, and EM pulses falling through the hanging garden.
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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.
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Being joyful there — in the Dominican Republic, where small shacks and houses pieced together by junkyard scraps sometimes hold families with over a dozen members — seems incomprehensible.
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There’s passable yet indistinguishable music in this exact style dropping every day, but the difference with Chicago’s Fatso is that his lyrics feel like scraps of conversations that communicate his hurt without leaning on platitudes.
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It should be finely milled, meaning it's blended to lightweight particles that move easily yet set the skin well.
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The storm built until the walls and floor were covered with pale gray particles, billowing like smoke, then tessellating in triangles.
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Light streams through the frosted glass, catching flecks of dust.
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But flecks of green were visible throughout the stadium as Algeria fans made their presence known as well.
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Boy and Girl Scout troops can also work with Sticky Fingers to earn cooking and baking patches.
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People taking diuretics, beta-blockers or any transdermal medication patches should check with a doctor first since heat significantly increases drug absorption through the skin.
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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.
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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.
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But Brown’s team identified a cluster of four clusters—the megacluster—that produces not just one, but four molecules that work in different ways to trip up the biotin pathway.
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The new device is made up of 16 small gas-detecting sensors that identify slight variations in gas molecules including those of common food allergens like walnuts and peanuts that could be life-threatening for those with allergies.
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