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 Listen to snippets of the album and hear about how Taupin has been able to keep his and John's relationship so strong. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026 Personalities are sketched only in the margins, mostly via brief snippets of chatter between rounds of gunfire. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026 Across all four albums, part of their universal appeal lies in the individual snippets listeners recognize and connect with. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 21 Oct. 2026 Cercek and her team are studying the best ways to monitor how tumors respond to dostarlimab by looking at snippets of genetic information that tumors shed in the blood, or more advanced imaging to accurately capture changing tumor sizes. — Alice Park, Time, 21 Oct. 2026 In the commercial, the snippets of Salazar show her 1990s sit down with the late Communist leader. — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026 The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that constituted my mind in the early months of 1993. — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026 The documentary’s new No-Movies are slightly longer, but still snippets of less than five minutes. — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 After learning how much the system captured, including snippets of private conversations, Blum asked whether the surveillance bothered him. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026

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Noun

A lot of higher-frequency sound from machinery, bits of people’s conversations, and some general hum still came through.

— Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
While most bits of ice and rock that burn up are the size of dust grains or pebbles, fireballs arise from debris ranging from the size of a marble to that of a small boulder.

— Dharma Niles, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of bits

Noun

The source was generally in good condition, but mold spots and dense clusters of small white specks required careful treatment.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Breakouts can look like milder, painless white bumps or dark specks known as whiteheads and blackheads, or more painful red bumps and deeper cysts — a mark of cystic acne.

— Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of specks

Noun

There are scraps of industrial, cybergrind, metalcore, and death metal in this stew, as well as a healthy garnish of Godflesh’s machinelike relentlessness, all of it well balanced.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2026
The patchwork bag is made from the soft leather and suede scraps left over from the creation of Coach bags.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of scraps

Noun

Viral particles can spread through the air and remain infectious for up to two hours, even after an infected person leaves the area.

— Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2026
As Earth plows through the debris streams, tiny particles slam into our atmosphere at 65,000 miles per hour (104,607 kilometers per hour), producing dazzling streaks of light across the night sky.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of particles

Noun

The oversized jacket featured a furry white base adorned with flecks of silver, which beautifully mirrored the sumptuous coats on the runway.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026
Add the torn basil and process just until incorporated -- there will be flecks of green in the mixture.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of flecks

Noun

Whole-body therapies, which come in pills, patches, sprays, gels and a vaginal ring, deliver doses of hormones into the bloodstream at levels high enough to have significant effects on symptoms like hot flashes.

— Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
During the previous internal sprint, engineers used Codex to investigate findings, reproduce vulnerabilities in isolated environments, and prepare patches for review.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 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

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Both amyloid beta and tau are normally present in healthy brains; the plaques and tangles are abnormal aggregations of these molecules.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Chelation therapy involves the administration of administering specialized chemical agents that attach to the lead molecules in the bird’s blood and form a compound that is expelled, mostly via urine.

— Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2026

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