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snare

[snair] / snɛər /




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He could throw down a dunk, hit a 3-pointer, snare a crucial rebound and bottle up the other team’s best scorer, all in the same game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Some scientists thought these fish-eating creatures may have been fully aquatic, gliding through deep waters to snare prey.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

It’s just this saxophone blaring through what sounds like a distorted snare head.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

On Everybody's Trying To Figure Me Out, she even tuned her snare drum to match the "iconic" thwack of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025

The other day, I duck into the library, snare a corner table, and hunker down with 3000 Years of Black Poetry.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes




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