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sniped

  • past participle of snipe.
  • past tense form of snipe.

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Sniped one of the also-flungs 'at the meddling Maudling: "Perhaps the real reason we're having to go is that he may need the flat back after the election."

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Sniped Victor Rasheed, president of the Virginia Retail Dealers Association: "There has been some price gouging, perhaps, by the oil companies."

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Sniped he of the Pan Am action: "It is nothing less than suicidal marketing that could endanger the fabric of the airline industry as a whole."

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Sniped Playwright Shaw: "Can it be that Mr. Roosevelt is overworked and is catching too many colds?"

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Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other."

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