snipe
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If elected, she pledged to have "difficult conversations" with the leadership, while refusing to "snipe from the sidelines".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
Vance’s snipe at “cat ladies” wasn’t Swift’s introduction to right-wing weirdness.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2025
For the first five episodes, Ava and Deborah snipe and jab at each other while struggling to keep the show they’ve worked so hard to secure on the air.
From Salon ● May 9, 2025
Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson’s warbler and Wilson’s snipe, both named after the 19th century naturalist Alexander Wilson.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
"How easy it is to snipe after the fact, to apply the knowledge we have now to the events of 1993," he wrote.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
This has continued well into the Musk era of X-née-Twitter, with the liberal Oates occasionally directing her snipes and barbs at the platform’s white nationalist owner.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
She even recycled one of her prepared snipes, telling Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
"He doesn't have a seat in Parliament, wouldn't necessarily find or win one," and one minister snipes, "any chance to have a dig – Burnham will never miss an opportunity".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
“Just hold on,“ snipes a young actor with whom she has a run-in, feeling that weight bear down on him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Medicine was tried fruitlessly, so his doctor prescribed snipes.
From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry
Wales started strongly with powerful forward drives and Hardy sniped over.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Before stepping down as co-CEOs, Overdeck and Siegel rarely appeared together at firm events and frequently sniped at each other in meetings, the Journal previously reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
Reagan-era conservative alum Hal Furman sniped that it was a shame Dhillon wasn’t in a position to act, so she made a big show of blocking him.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025
As Beethoven is said to have sniped to his benefactor, the Austrian royal Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky, “Prince, what you are, you are by circumstance and birth. What I am, I am through myself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
“And a true prima donna,” sniped Scruffy out of the side of his snout.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
That’s rarely a happy experience for upstarts who build their careers sniping at incumbents from the sidelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The two had been sniping at each other all game, with Doncic at one point taunting Schroder for not signing an $84-million contract with the Lakers in 2021.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Brown has taken a less provocative approach to Horner this year, but has not hidden his disdain for Red Bull's sniping about the legality of the McLaren car behind the scenes.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
Eventually, their sniping forces the network to bring in an HR representative to babysit Ava and Deborah.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025
What would I say if I could shout above the sniping behind me?
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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