snip
verb (used with object)
to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
have snipped
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present perfectof snip.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But these mutations seem to have had little effect; they are probably markers of where human antiviral enzymes have snipped at the virus in attempts to deactivate it, the researchers said.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2022
He and Mr. Pinckney have snipped Kharms’s prose into Dada-ish confetti in a script that requires the actors to repeat certain phrases many times, in varying voices and meters.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2014
