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snores

verb

present tense third-person singular of snore

as in snorts

to inhale and exhale noisily while sleeping My husband snores and it keeps me up all night.

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Recent Examples of snores Sylvia, my copilot, snores softly. — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026 But not everyone who snores has sleep apnea, and not everyone with sleep apnea snores. — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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Luz inserts the construction pole; Susana sniffs.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 26 June 2026
The look of sheer repressed, stymied rage/laughter on Raph’s face when Paul sniffs the Oreos instead is one of the episode’s biggest laughs.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026

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Measles can spread when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes, and the virus remains infectious in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours after the person with infection leaves the area.

— Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
The story, which here begins in the 1960s and moves to the present, becomes an inter-racial love story rooted in the fraught second half of the 20th century, and lives and breathes as such.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026

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