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