snips

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While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Between snips, stylist Mel Sharpe reflects on the game.

From BBC • Aug. 28, 2025

Use a sharp knife, snips or bypass pruner to cut 3- to 6-inch-long pieces from firm, mature, non-woody stems.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023

The research showed that V8 snips one end of the PAR1 protein and awakens it.

From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2023

I said, “Hi,” but did not get up, just lay still listening to the birds, the snips and sputs of insects moving in the dry leaves, and the air stirring the newly leafing trees.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George