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View definitions for snipe

snipe

noun as in game bird

verb as in filch

verb as in jeer

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In short: After an unusually exhausting summer of bullets, conventions, and presidential drop-outs, the news is returning—just for this last week before Labor Day!—to its typical August lull, an annual season in which political spokespeople snipe at each other over the logistics of big events to come.

From Slate

Scotland have a penalty after a high tackle from Sara Seye on Caity Mattinson, who tried a little snipe.

From BBC

But Google executives, after watching employees snipe about the war in Gaza in recent months, are making big changes to turn down the temperature on their company’s beloved message board, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

This study enables us to identify species that are particularly sensitive to human activity and need more protected habitats to thrive, for example the Great Snipe in Europe, the Nkulengu Rail in Africa and the Hume's Lark in Asia.

On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by Margo Snipe, a health reporter for CapitalB News.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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