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Oil prices dipped after Friday's one-percent gains, with the United States and Iran continuing to snipe at each other and showing no signs of reaching a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

“Do you want to find the aqueducts,” Alyssa interjects, “or just snipe at each other until they put us on a death bus to nowhere?”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

"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

"It's just childish and it's amateurish. That's why they lost. They don't know what they're doing," he snipes.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023

My step-daughter arrived; but as you weren’t to be found, we had to send to Joel to shoot us a buck and a few dozen snipes.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

The two sniped, traded personal barbs and, unsurprisingly, focused more on building their own social media brands than getting to the truth.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

The lead barely lasted two minutes, however, as Roigard sniped in for his second score after being put in by Jordie Barrett.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

Though mathematicians of the day sniped at Berkeley’s logic, the good bishop was entirely correct.

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

England have seeped points, looking vulnerable to sniping runs around the edge of the breakdown and to driven mauls.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

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

Leading up to that scene, Ellie strives to establish her own hero identity by training in hand-to-hand combat with men twice her size and sharpening her sniping skills with a long gun.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2025

Now, Baldoni is alleging in his 179-page complaint that he is not at fault, and that the high-profile battle is "not a case about celebrities sniping at each other in the press".

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

But then, he was used to it, seeing how Miss Trotter and Ma Charles kept up their sniping from the Trotter side of the creek to the Charles side.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia