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snitching

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verb (1)

present participle of snitch

snitching

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verb (2)

present participle of snitch

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of snitching
Verb
As officers in his proffer interview gave him an inventory of various Crips colleagues who were snitching, on the run from police or already in prison,Davis summed up the reality of gangsta life. Andy Rose, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026 This isn’t the first instance of a Waymo robotaxi snitching on misbehaving passengers. Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026 Time off hoarding and snitching ensued. Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026 Rio’s staunch griminess, dreaming of whacking his brother and wanting to cut his nephew’s tongue for snitching, drags Fxce out into the open sea. Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 23 Feb. 2026 The rap world came to interpret this as tantamount to snitching, a violation of a sacred rule in the streets. Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025 The Brooklyn native was found with cocaine and MDMA and also admitted to assaulting a man who taunted him about snitching during a recent trip to a Florida mall. Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snitching
Noun
  • The latest indictment, which the district attorney said was returned July 20, adds the lying in wait circumstance to the previous murder charges.
    Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Not by the accusations, but that her habit of lying had seemingly caught up with her.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The term first went viral thanks to a resurfaced clip of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Yolanda Hadid talking to her then-teenage, now-supermodel daughter, Gigi Hadid.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The victim was conscious, breathing and talking when taken to Community Regional Medical Center.
    Bob Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The complaint says Elmi and the three others then began stealing victims' identities to bill Medicaid in their name.
    Adam Duxter, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • A question of piracy After book authors accused the company of stealing their work to train its Claude AI chatbot, Judge Alsup broke the accusations down into two components and addressed them separately.
    TerDawn DeBoe, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Katrina was charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, false informing and failure to report a corpse, while Hopkins was also charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder and failure to report a corpse.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026
Noun
  • According to Hon Weng Chong, Cortical Labs founder and CEO, some potential applications include drug discovery, humanoid robotics, cybersecurity and fraud detection.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • In March 2025, the EPA terminated roughly $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants, with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin alleging programmatic fraud and abuse.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Football is all about engaño (trickery) — looking one way and passing the other, feinting to go left and swiftly moving right, manipulating the opposition and tricking them to open up those little spaces.
    Xavi, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • Marc Cucurella and Pedro Porro have stretched defenses from the flanks, while Lamine Yamal has confused them with his trickery.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 18 July 2026
Noun
  • There appears to be no indication the scammer or scammers behind this web of deception are anywhere close to slowing down.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But Richard Adams Locke, who wrote the series, later claimed that deception wasn’t his goal.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • For some of King’s followers, her double-dealing also is difficult to let go.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • But that rhetoric sounded hollow in the face of its dalliance with a drug-smuggling double-dealing despot like Noriega.
    Time, Time, 25 Nov. 2025

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