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sneer

[sneer] / snɪər /


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The ones some travelers sneer at, like magnets, T-shirts and shot glasses.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Many of us were raised to sneer at social influence—instructed to resist peer pressure at all costs—but there’s another term for thinking about all this that’s less off-putting: role modeling.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

"If many critics sneer and say we can't achieve food self-sufficiency, today we prove that we are food self-sufficient," Prabowo said.

From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026

The resemblance was too strong to be a coincidence: The ever-present sneer.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025

They are not locked into their usual the-world-is-beneath-me sneer, but hang on his face like melting cheese, creating the illusion that he is an actual human being and a sad one, at that.

From "The Misfits" by James Howe




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