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Especially when you went to a late afternoon show and emerged onto Colorado Boulevard and City Hall was all lit up like somehow Pasadena had snipped off a tiny corner of Paris.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2021

Then the main British attack had snipped through the Italian barbed wire just south of S�di Omar and cut speedily northwest toward Tobruk, isolating the bulk of the German armored force.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon his return next day he learned that souvenir hunters had snipped off five of the buttons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only eight months ago, Per�n's censors had snipped another Neville story into senselessness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Was it actually the spider which Pris had snipped apart with Irmgard Batys cuticle scissors?

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick