snipping

verb

present participle of snip
as in shaving
to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument snipped the loose ends

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Recent Examples of snipping The janitor resumed steadily snipping the bushes with her shears. — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 Harvest sage by snipping one leaf at a time with scissors or cutting off an entire stem just above a node. — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2026 Keep the blooms looking fresh as long as possible by snipping away the leaves. — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 6 July 2026 So don't be shy about snipping off leaves for your projects. — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 15 May 2026 Police are searching for a straphanger suspected of unbolting a door switch from a inside a downtown C train Monday evening, snipping the wires and then absconding with the train part, sources tell the Daily News. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 14 May 2026 Nguyen’s striking direction in the scenes in which Kristen faces her future in the hospital elevates the maudlin material, especially after Kristen makes the choice to lose a leg in the hopes of snipping the cancer in the bud. — Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 13 May 2026 Its DuoScrub rotary mops apply downward pressure to erase stains, while a specialized hair-snipping brush eliminates manual detangling. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 May 2026 One enzyme acts as a random chopper, snipping the long polymer chains into smaller pieces, while the other slowly chews these pieces into their monomer building units from each end. — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snipping
  1. shaving
  2. cutting
  3. trimming
  4. clipping
Verb
  • After finally shaving his beard off, Colbert concluded the interview by gifting Kimmel something special from his show.
    — Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Colbert had no hesitation about taking the tool to his facial hair, shaving it off and returning to his recognizable clean-shaven look.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of shaving
Verb
  • This change is apparent in the fact that European governments, too, are cutting funding for religious freedom advocacy.
    — Matthew Schmitz, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • In a sign of growing staff unrest over the steady stream of cost-cutting announcements across the BBC, some workers made their feelings known on a Microsoft Teams call earlier this week.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of cutting
Verb
  • But while the wider economy has come under pressure, with inflation hovering above 4% and the government trimming its economic growth forecasts, Brazil has also been an economic beneficiary of higher oil prices as a net oil exporter.
    — Chloe Taylor,Thomas Da Graca Barlow, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The hair architect responsible for trimming Lawrence’s texture on Tuesday has not yet been revealed.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of trimming
Verb
  • The sequence stylistically excises itself from the episode as though clipping it, anticipating its excision from the show when uploaded to a video-sharing platform.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Decades later, a relative sent Dottie a newspaper clipping about the Foster study, which included an archival photo of her grandmother.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of clipping

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“Snipping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snipping. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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