nipping
Example Sentences
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Rumbling in from the Nursery End, nipping the ball down the slope to left-hander Devon Conway.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Without competition nipping at its heels, Bell Labs engineers had the luxury of working out difficult ideas over decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
Claude-maker Anthropic has OpenAI, Google's Gemini and even Grok from xAI nipping at its heels in the market for professional AI.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
“The White Lotus” carried six nominations into the ceremony, with streaming hits like “Adolescence” and “Severance” nipping at its heels.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026
The Black Tips had been nipping at his heels for weeks, and now he’d forced them to play their hand.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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