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had snapped

  • past perfect
    of snap.
    snap
    verb (used without object)
    to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.

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I’d stopped by our house after signing the sales agreement and discovered that the pull chain inside one of our toilets had snapped.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Strategy revealed in a securities filing Monday that it had snapped up 855 tokens for roughly $87,974 each, or $75.3 million in total, in the preceding seven-day period.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

I had snapped a photo earlier in which he appeared to be pouting.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026

Del Toro wrote on social media that his colleague had witnessed strange electrical and physical phenomena inside room nine and the director had snapped up the chance to stay in the haunted bed chamber.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

Lancelot had snapped off one of the roses, and was pinching the sepals.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White