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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
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
  • Those gathering for the lying in state and funeral will contrast with huge nationwide protests in January that were met by a deadly crackdown by security forces that left thousands dead and sent shock waves around the world.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 3 July 2026
  • What better time than the summer of the nation’s 250th anniversary of independence to reflect on how Trump’s years of lying have corroded the citizenry’s essential belief in the integrity of elections?
    Jackie Calmes, Mercury News, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • Paramount executives are certainly talking a big game in public.
    Rick Ellis, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • James wasn’t talking to any team executives about official business.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Hoffman introduced a slide step to speed up his motion to the plate, but even that wasn’t enough to stop the Padres from stealing twice against him earlier this month.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • The former 9-time AL base-stealing champ and 9-time gold glover resides in his boyhood home of Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
    Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Noun
  • His criminal record reflects some of the occasions he got caught and did jail time, for non-violent retail fraud.
    Kyung Lah, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • The lawsuit includes claims of professional negligence, fraud, nuisance, negligence, labor code violations and wrongful death.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
Verb
  • Corporate officials reached out to Murrell later that day and apologized to her, informing her that the driver was no longer working for FedEx.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2026
  • Page’s character Sinon is the soldier tasked with informing the Trojans that the Trojan Horse is a gift from the Greeks, imploring them to drag the giant statue into the city with Odysseus, Menelaus (Jon Bernthal) and more soldiers inside.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 July 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
  • Yes, a bit of deception has long been standard in listing photos — a wide lens, a bit of color saturation to make a viewless window appear brighter — but the tools today are more sophisticated, cheaper, and pretty ubiquitous.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 21 July 2026
  • Nolan reinvents him as a naive young soldier left outside the horse to sell Odysseus’ deception.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 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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