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Among the boldest moves by the Reichmann brothers was snatching up Manhattan real estate in the late 1970s when most developers were staying away after the city’s brush with fiscal catastrophe.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

At roughly the same time across the Pennines, the Leeds captain Kevin Sinfield was snatching a dramatic 21-20 win against Huddersfield, at Headingley, with a last-gasp drop goal.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2010

Katherine missed his glare because she was snatching the envelope out of Chip’s hand, ripping the letter open.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

He had told her the war was snatching away railroad men so fast that if I could pass for twenty-one, he could get me on.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

At the brow of the grade he passed the oil-tank car, and nodded sympathetically at a round-faced, tow-headed Swede who was snatching a surreptitious drag at his pipe in the lee of the car.

From The Night Operator by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)