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Recent Examples of snuffleIn front of them, warthogs snuffled around in the grass.—Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025 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 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 Click for more > Clearly, this is no ordinary sea creature quietly snuffling the currents.—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010
About two weeks after Skaggs died, Mead received a call from a former employee who told Mead that Kay had admitted being in the room with Skaggs and seeing the pitcher snort drugs prior to his death.
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Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
18 Oct. 2025
Just hours after snorting the drug, Sarah awoke to find her girlfriend unresponsive beside her.
But no matter how much Trump and Johnson and other MAGA go-alongs whine, the right of the people to peaceably assemble is right there in the First Amendment.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
20 Oct. 2025
Common signals include sniffing, circling, squatting, or whining.
Throughout many revealing conversations, the braggadocious zeal of Poseidon and Zeus, the sexy aloofness of Aphrodite and Dionysus, and the sniveling bitchery of Hermes and Hypnos were endearing, but all gave way to flawed people who grew deeply over time.
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Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
In the show, Cooke plays the regal Alicent Hightower and Glynn-Carney is her sniveling son, King Aegon Targaryen.
Ryan and Abby Lewis posed several threats on the opposing end, but Concord-Carlisle also did well to snuff out most opportunities outside of its defensive circle.
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Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
Potential big inning snuffed out, and Milwaukee got two baserunners the rest of the way against starter Tyler Glasnow.
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