SNIPPETS Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

snippets

noun

plural of snippet

as in bits

a very small piece read them a snippet of his latest poem

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Recent Examples of snippets The documentary’s new No-Movies are slightly longer, but still snippets of less than five minutes. — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 The clip features snippets of the personal testimonies given by Perry’s close friends and family, as well as words from Perry himself. — Brianne Tracy, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026 After discovering the system could capture snippets of private conversations, Blum felt conflicted. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2026 After learning how much the system captured, including snippets of private conversations, Blum asked whether the surveillance bothered him. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2026 Her piece on Howie Rose incorporating snippets of lyrics by Howie’s beloved Beatles was brilliant, and all of her articles have been insightful and informative. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 Sep. 2026 These responses, thepublisher has said, go far beyond the snippets of texts typically shown with ordinary search results. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 In this case, the scammers likely took snippets of the loan officer’s voice from his social media posts and cloned it, Adams said. — Emily Elconin For Cnn, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026 In the moment, however, Martins imbues tremendous intrigue through snippets of the seemingly distracted middle-aged driver, Wesley (Renato Novaes), and eventually, through the crash itself. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Sep. 2026

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Noun

And Widow’s Bay was, of course, very successful at alternating between scary and funny bits.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
In addition, they’re used in experiments searching for dark matter and in systems that read information from superconducting quantum bits, or qubits.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of bits

Noun

Blanding hops in and out of the truck, grabbing buckets of food scraps from porches and restaurants, piling those scraps into bins in the truck bed and driving them to a composting site.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
But his script, co-written with regular collaborator Jack Coulter, is less impressive, welding together story scraps from other, better films to rather turbid, uninvolving effect.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of scraps

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Neutrinos bump into other particles only rarely, so scientists build large detectors to improve their odds of catching collisions.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026
Relativistic means travelling at speeds near that of light, with the blazar's central supermassive black hole as the engine that accelerated these particles.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of particles

Noun

The oversized jacket featured a furry white base adorned with flecks of silver, which beautifully mirrored the sumptuous coats on the runway.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026
Add the torn basil and process just until incorporated -- there will be flecks of green in the mixture.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of flecks

Noun

There were taro patches and gardens planted with banana, sweet potato, sugar cane, noni, and more.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
The release notes mention patches for a Face ID bug and camera-zooming issues on iPhone 18 Pro models, as well as a fix for an unresponsive screen issue.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of patches

Noun

Trump himself issued mouthfuls of balderdash during the event.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
The possibility of a Chase and Taylor flirtation causing a rift with Miranda is briefly raised and just as swiftly quashed — through large mouthfuls of chips and salsa, Taylor assures Miranda at the sip-and-see that there is no there there.

— Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2026

Definition of mouthfuls

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The 2026 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to Henri Kagan of the Universite Paris-Sud, in France, and Kenso Soai of the Tokyo University of Science, in Japan, for their work exploring the fundamental geometry of molecules.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
At the center of the MOF are positively charged metal ions connected by organic linker molecules.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026

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