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Oil prices dipped after Friday's one-percent gains, with the United States and Iran continuing to snipe at each other and showing no signs of reaching a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Minks also prey on ground-nesting birds such as snipe, lapwing and waterfowl, as well as kingfishers and sand martins.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Vance’s snipe at “cat ladies” wasn’t Swift’s introduction to right-wing weirdness.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2025

For the first five episodes, Ava and Deborah snipe and jab at each other while struggling to keep the show they’ve worked so hard to secure on the air.

From Salon ● May 9, 2025

The single exception was a snipe, which is not a seed-eating bird.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

This has continued well into the Musk era of X-née-Twitter, with the liberal Oates occasionally directing her snipes and barbs at the platform’s white nationalist owner.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

They picked at this particular South Africa scab with their verbal armoury of salty snipes when a tense chase began.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025

When Chris, the passive empath, sticks up for the fragile girl, Rebekah snipes, “She can’t take us all down with her!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

"It's just childish and it's amateurish. That's why they lost. They don't know what they're doing," he snipes.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023

Small game, as ducks, snipes, and sandpipers, is abundant.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by A. H. Savage Landor

The two sniped, traded personal barbs and, unsurprisingly, focused more on building their own social media brands than getting to the truth.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Before stepping down as co-CEOs, Overdeck and Siegel rarely appeared together at firm events and frequently sniped at each other in meetings, The Wall Street Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Wales started strongly with powerful forward drives and Hardy sniped over.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Reagan-era conservative alum Hal Furman sniped that it was a shame Dhillon wasn’t in a position to act, so she made a big show of blocking him.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025

Ma Charles and Miss Trotter might as well have been Vonetta and Fern, the way they sniped at each other.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

England have seeped points, looking vulnerable to sniping runs around the edge of the breakdown and to driven mauls.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

That’s rarely a happy experience for upstarts who build their careers sniping at incumbents from the sidelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Megyn Kelly publicly mocked fellow conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, adding to a pattern of influencer-on-influencer sniping that played out both onstage and online.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

Scrum-half Justine Pelletier grabbed the opening try and was a constant threat, with her sharp sniping runs and speedy passing creating havoc in New Zealand's defence.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

They crouch behind the trees in the old orchard, sniping at one another, shouting: “You’re dead!”

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood