snips

Example Sentences

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While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Rpn11 snips off these tags, enabling the misfolded protein to slip into the proteasome core for disassembly.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

Use sharp snips or bypass pruner to make a clean cut that looks tidy and closes up quickly.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

The scientists attached this tag to protein toxins and the gene-editing enzyme Cas9, a large molecular scissors that snips DNA at a location specified by a molecule that guides the scissors to the right place.

From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2023

I said, “Hi,” but did not get up, just lay still listening to the birds, the snips and sputs of insects moving in the dry leaves, and the air stirring the newly leafing trees.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George