snips
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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While it has been directed with careful attention to shaping its emotional arc by Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers” might have amplified its charms with a few snips of the scissors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
Rpn11 snips off these tags, enabling the misfolded protein to slip into the proteasome core for disassembly.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024
The sheep lies down, calm, as Begay pulls up a section and snips deftly with even strokes.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2023
The scientists attached this tag to protein toxins and the gene-editing enzyme Cas9, a large molecular scissors that snips DNA at a location specified by a molecule that guides the scissors to the right place.
From Scientific American • Mar. 29, 2023
He harvests parts from supply sheds: snips of copper wire, screws, a bent screwdriver.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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