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Recent Examples of snuffleClick for more > Clearly, this is no ordinary sea creature quietly snuffling the currents.—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010 Next to arrive is her disembodied trunk, with a mind of its own, snuffling out friends and enemies and food.—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024 Elephants are trampling the thirsty turf, sending sprays of dust into the dry savannah air, and buffalos are bent with their snuffling snouts to the ground.—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023 Local residents popped in to buy vegetables from a shack built out of recycled materials, while an enormous sow snuffled in the heather beside a vegetable garden.—Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023 There is an amazing array of puzzles that require dogs to roll, shake, lick or snuffle a product to access food or treats.—Melanie D.g. Kaplan, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023 Two canines in Massachusetts are the first to be used by a law enforcement agency to snuffle the virus.—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021 At night, wild boars snuffled outside the tents, searching for food scraps.—New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020 If any swine is fit to be an organ donor for people, then the dozens of pigs snuffling around Qihan Bio’s facility in Hangzhou, China, may be the best candidates so far.—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 19 Dec. 2019
Mendoza-Gonzalez said Bos had come to his home in the 700 block of Yeoman Street on Feb. 19, and sometime that night had snorted some sort of a drug.
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Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
Mohammed's character Hugh has to snort cocaine during the trio's initial meeting with the gangster Fly (Paddy Considine) to prove that the trio aren't posers.
Shildt is terrible for the Padres — the last thing that group of guys needs is someone encouraging their wild mood swings between whining and macho antics.
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Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
Schwarzenegger tells environmentalists dismayed by Trump to ‘stop whining’ and get to work
Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the approach of President Trump’s administration.
Dae-ho then pulls his blade out and slashes at Gi-hun’s arm, abandoning his sniveling demeanor to scream that Gi-hun is the one who is responsible for killing everyone.
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Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
In league with its sniveling human colleague Gabriel (Esai Morales, cackling with evil intent as if being paid by the cackle), The Entity is hacking into the world’s nuclear defense systems and taking control of the missiles, one paralyzed and panicking nation at a time.
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Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune,
Boston Herald,
22 May 2025
The older versions of their characters are played to a full-on sobbing effect by James Garner and Gena Rowlands.
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Lia Beck,
EW.com,
25 June 2025
When a video emerged of him sobbing in his locker room stall after coming agonizingly close to winning the title a year ago, his entire native nation commiserated with his pain.
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