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snare

[snair] / snɛər /




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Also percussive yet much quieter is Anri Sala’s snare drum, dangling upside down from the ceiling at Esther Schipper.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

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

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 script never varies: He vows to snare the bad guys.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025

I started with both hands doing a kind of shuffled march on the snare drum, pretty quietly.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick




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