snap
Example Sentences
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Passengers on the other airlines’ canceled flights had already snapped up earlier options.
An ongoing cold snap has seen snow settle in parts of the county amid sub zero temperatures.
From BBC
Both “real money” investors who wrote down their old investments and distressed-debt funds that more recently snapped up bonds at low prices stand to be winners.
U.S. military officers have to make snap real-time judgments with imperfect information.
Groups of passersby stopped outside the city’s La Carlota air base—one of the sites targeted in Saturday’s military incursion —to take photos, exchanging pleasantries as they snapped photos of the bombed site.
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