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snipes
  • plural of snipe.
  • present tense form of snipe (3rd person singular).

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Chelsie C. G. Snipes from UChicago was also an author.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

"I'd watched Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump – and thought 'This is just surreal,'" recalls Crawford.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2025

Actor Wesley Snipes spent three years in prison after being convicted in 2008 of three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns in a case where he owed about $7 million in back taxes.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Wesley Snipes had only done “Major League” and a Spike Lee flick.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2023

Snipes and plover, orioles and ovenbirds, bobolinks and meadow-larks, all had lived in it by turns for a few days.

From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Gates, Eleanor