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snare

[snair] / snɛər /




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Some scientists thought these fish-eating creatures may have been fully aquatic, gliding through deep waters to snare prey.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Her lawsuit is a test case chosen from among hundreds charging that Instagram and YouTube were designed to snare young users and keep them hooked on their services.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

On Everybody's Trying To Figure Me Out, she even tuned her snare drum to match the "iconic" thwack of U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025

The closing number, “Match-Lit,” features a moody production with a clanging snare drum and bits of pedal-steel guitar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

A single vertical mark represented a unit, while a heel bone represented 10, a swirly snare stood for 100, and so on.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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