dipped

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"Nipped out for milk - wished I’d brought my ski goggles!" says Lindsay Grant of Aberdeen.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2024

Nipped by competition from shipping lines owned by the South American countries themselves, Grace carries almost 40% less cargo than it did in its peak year, 1947.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nipped by freight competition, railroad executives have in the past been the chief critics of the Government's waterway development program.

From Time Magazine Archive

He tapped the old justice of the peace familiarly on the shoulder, and pronounced a single word: "Nipped!"

From The Mystery of Orcival by Gaboriau, Émile

Ottima.Ah—my sign was, the sun Inflamed the sear side of yon chestnut-tree180 Nipped by the first frost.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra