: a small part, piece, or thing
especially
: a brief quotable passage
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snippets from the author's newest novel
read them a snippet of his latest poem
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On New Year's Eve 2024, the show posted a clip on its Instagram, featuring snippets of their early career days.
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Jackie Tempera, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
More context is given to their stories as the films show them with their families and coaches, offering a few snippets of joyful teenage lives with friends, siblings and romantic crushes.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
The book is an exhausting typographical obstacle course; that each of its 107 chapters begins with a snippet of poetry as an epigraph does not make reading it any easier.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The Fall of Diddy includes a snippet of harrowing footage from March 5, 2016, that CNN released, where Combs is seen attacking Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway, kicking and shoving her, then dragging her by her sweatshirt before throwing an object at her.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
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Jackie Tempera, People.com, 26 Jan. 2025
More context is given to their stories as the films show them with their families and coaches, offering a few snippets of joyful teenage lives with friends, siblings and romantic crushes.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
The book is an exhausting typographical obstacle course; that each of its 107 chapters begins with a snippet of poetry as an epigraph does not make reading it any easier.
—Mike Hale, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The Fall of Diddy includes a snippet of harrowing footage from March 5, 2016, that CNN released, where Combs is seen attacking Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway, kicking and shoving her, then dragging her by her sweatshirt before throwing an object at her.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Snippet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snippet. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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snippet
noun
snip·pet
ˈsnip-ət 
: a small part, piece, or thing
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