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 But online, snippets of the Ontario fire videos are being shared, fueling grievances over the growing cost of living and stagnant wages. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 The company is working on smart home gadgets, robots, AirPods with AI cameras, and other new categories of devices, according to reports as well as snippets recently found in a beta version of MacOS. — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026 In hip-hop and other genres, producers were using snippets of other people’s records; courts often ruled that this was a form of theft, although hip-hop fans tended to see it as righteous theft. — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 The OpenAI version released today does not contain any code snippets, or even the chilling examples of messages the agents left for each other in the months leading up to the attack that its staffers shared at Black Hat. — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 Palal played snippets of Davis’ 2008 interview as Davis, dressed in a blue suit and tie, watched on. — Danielle Bacher, PEOPLE, 18 Aug. 2026 Listen to snippets from his new albums and read more about his musical influences, from New Orleans Jazz to video games. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026 Palal played snippets of the 2008 interview as Davis, dressed in a blue suit and tie, watched a screen in the courtroom. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2026 Video snippets captured from two highway patrol officers’ cameras showed the man initially standing at a homeless encampment while holding a hammer and two nearly identical homemade weapons, each of them made with a knife affixed to the end of pole. — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

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Noun

There were small tables that needed gluing, and there was always clothing to be mended, and, on this day, a lawn chair whose shredded side pieces were being replaced with unmatching but whimsical bits of material.

— Lydia Davis, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026
Some of the best bits are when there is no violence at all, said Jo Lawson-Tancred on Artnet.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of bits

Noun

Alcaraz sensed the dip and sent him running east and west along the baseline, breaking him for the first time since late in the first set by outlasting him on one of those corner-to-corner scraps.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Historically, retail investors got IPO scraps as companies focused on getting shares into the hands of patient institutions, but that’s changing.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of scraps

Noun

In Lower Manhattan, the collapse of the Twin Towers led to a massive dust cloud that filled the air and blanketed city blocks with ash, debris, metal, glass, asbestos, benzene and other harmful particles, according to the WTC Health program.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026
The main filter comes with a fine-mesh inner basket for capturing particles such as sand, pollen, and other grit.

— John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of particles

Noun

Some kits include stone-like chips or flecks to scatter over the surface of the wet paint for a realistic effect.

— Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2026
Hundreds of flecks of sequins caught the light as Jenner made her way down the red carpet, glittering from every angle.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of flecks

Noun

Each jacket is cleaned, repaired and turned into a bespoke jacket with new patches and other details, or something entirely different, like a bag.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
This is particularly relevant for open source codebases, such as Chromium, where upstream patches are publicly accessible prior to downstream consumers of the codebase applying the patch.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of patches

Noun

Trump himself issued mouthfuls of balderdash during the event.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of mouthfuls

Noun

But the team recovered amino acid variants, molecules that make up proteins, that suggested three bones and two teeth were Denisovan, according to the new studies.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
The team at Rainmaker says drones are the most precise and cost-effective way of cloud seeding, a process that uses molecules of silver iodide to attract water droplets and enhance the amount rain and snow that falls.

— Daniel Manzo, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

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