snuff

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Recent Examples of snuff While the Cub pitchers are doing their part, AbbVie’s scientists continue to look for more ways to snuff out cancerous cells. Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025 An opportunity to add on was snuffed out when Jung Hoo Lee’s low line drive to left was caught on a dive by Suwinski, stranding Adames on third base. Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 30 July 2025 Much of that fire had been snuffed out by the end of the day Wednesday. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 July 2025 And Trump seems incapable of snuffing out this blaze. Philip Elliott, Time, 18 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for snuff
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuff
Verb
  • Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until Isaac appeared to kiss and sniff Chastain's underarm area.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2025
  • Miami will need someone to sniff out runs close and makes plays close to the line of scrimmage. ▪ 5.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 20 July 2025
Verb
  • Only five years earlier, Hill had rescued Jacqueline Kennedy in a moving limousine after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in a Dallas motorcade.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2025
  • In 1983, the United States invaded the island after its young socialist leader, Maurice Bishop was assassinated, along with a dozen others, by his own comrades.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Initially curious about the pup, the kitty begins by smelling him, only to end up panting just like him.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Easter Knox, 76, started smelling gas in the air last year, and stopped opening her windows.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The two had become friends, but police arrested Knox and charged her with murdering Kercher.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • As teenagers, they were convicted of murdering three 8-year-old boys, allegedly as part of Satanic rites.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That matter is small enough to be absorbed into the bloodstream when inhaled.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 22 Aug. 2025
  • According to them, the deepest parts of the lungs get the highest dose of these nanoparticles when inhaled.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • An additional three people have been slain this year in the 101st Precinct, which covers Far Rockaway from Beach 59th St. east to the Long Island border.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Earlier this year, inmates Saul Alvarez, Thorne Harnage and Donald Lashley were slain at the prison.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Florida is set to execute a death row inmate for the kidnapping and stabbing death of a young woman who was attacked at work more than four decades ago.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Walker and Diesel are back for the fourth Furious movie, which doesn’t fully execute the series’ rebirth but does (pardon the pun) begin racing towards it.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Most of the strikes occur in the summer, killing 20 people each year, according to the NWS.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Weather systems Andrea, Barry, Chantal and Dexter were classified as tropical storms earlier this year, as Barry caused flooding in southeastern Mexico and Central Texas, where flooding killed more than 130 people.
    Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025

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“Snuff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuff. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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