snip
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There had also been a slight rise on the previous year in younger men choosing to have the snip - about 950 vasectomies were performed on men aged under 30 in England during 2024-25.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
They are quick to snip losses and quick to take profits.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Artichoke Potato Salad, on the other hand, is ladies luncheon, serve in a pretty bowl, snip some fresh dill, bring on the flavor, bring on the texture, pizzaz-y potato salad.
From Salon ● May 9, 2024
In her landmark 1964 performance “Cut Piece,” she gave gallery visitors scissors and invited them to snip away at her clothes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
As if we’ve worked twenty years together on an assembly line, Epsilon-5 and I snip samples, preparing dishes without needing to tell each other what we are doing or what to do next.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
Rpn11 snips off these tags, enabling the misfolded protein to slip into the proteasome core for disassembly.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024
The scientists attached this tag to protein toxins and the gene-editing enzyme Cas9, a large molecular scissors that snips DNA at a location specified by a molecule that guides the scissors to the right place.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 29, 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
Your brain snipped out and inserted details without your conscious knowledge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
"It is a little sad, isn’t it? One more quiet thread snipped in the broader unraveling of neighborhood-ness. Of the small, repetitive exchanges that used to stitch a life together."
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2025
"We might get absolutely snipped," said Kyrgios, who lost to Djokovic in the only major final of his turbulent career at Wimbledon in 2022.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024
Perhaps you feel sad that the life of your placenta was cut short, snipped from existence.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
And I can turn the saddest rag of a shirt to find the one good spot that can be snipped out and turned into a quilt patch.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
They then lug heavy loads back home, spreading the seaweed out on the ground and snipping off residue.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The woman who had once dreamed of ballet and the Olympics now was snipping stray threads off underwear, under orders to “minimize bathroom breaks.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
"But if we can do gene therapy that doesn't involve snipping DNA strands, then we avoid these potential pitfalls."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
There was no tow on Verstappen's second lap, but he nevertheless improved further, snipping 0.088secs off his own time.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
It was the train conductor, snipping holes in the tickets of each passenger as he passed through the aisle.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
