snatch

Having a bird swoop down to snatch food from your hand is one of the most intimate interactions we can have with wildlife.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

And each time, the notes danced away just before I could snatch the answer from my memory bank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

But Count Binface, who dresses with a grey dustbin over his head wearing a cape and silver armour, could snatch a fifth of the votes, according to a Survation poll.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Carlo Ancelotti's team turned in an underwhelming showing in New Jersey, after all, and had to come from behind to snatch a draw.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

She drops my phone onto the cotton sheets, and I snatch it back.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

They included bricks that would play snatches of the iconic theme song and emit coin-collecting sound effects as Mario characters moved around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Cinematographer Tim Ives snatches his rare opportunities to shoot the beautiful scenery, but most of the pair’s encounters take place in or near Ledger’s orange pickup truck, a totem from the book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

"It's Olympic lifts we're doing - clean and jerk, snatches, squats, the lot," says men's lead Hammy McMillan.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Filthy walls were scrawled with names, pleas and snatches of poetry.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

He snatches his cigar from the ashtray and taps it on the edge.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

When freedom was snatched away, Elizabeth Turner’s mother fought back, and changed the Constitution.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026

They snatched real credentials, sneaked around in different systems and eventually grabbed at least some of the information they were after.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

All of items, sold individually, were snatched up by Wednesday within 24 hours of sales starting: water bottle caps, ring pop candy, police caution tape, straws, utensils -- as well as a single left AirPod.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

He snatched up two cheap contracts for $240 in total and has already cashed out one of those contracts for $320.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Llewelyn asked Danny, and snatched the book from him.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Worse than that, coming in the wake of Operations Epic Fury and Midnight Hammer, have we ever seen a better example of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The officer invoked this exception against Lau, snatching his green card and “paroling” him into the country.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

He spent the next decade receiving similar recognition, even snatching up a best rap performance Grammy Award for his work on “King’s Dead” in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

This year, there’s a crowded pipeline, but the two snatching the most focus are ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and Zhipu AI’s GLM5.0.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 16, 2026

One minute the boy was balling a baloney sandwich in his fist, and the next minute he was darting into the dining room, snatching a piece of lasagna out of the bus tub.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman