as in skunk
someone who acts in a sly and secret manner she's such a sneaker I wouldn't trust her any farther than I could throw her

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Recent Examples of sneaker The rapper, who was styled by Taylor McNeill, completed his look with light blue bootcut jeans, a black backwards cap, black gloves, and white sneakers. Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 9 Feb. 2025 Willow Lindley, fashion market and collaborations director Two things keep me going during fashion week—this amazingly powerful portable charger and the promise of changing into sneakers when the running around starts to hurt! Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025 One post is a gallery that shows how professional Saucony athlete Vanessa Fraser styles both Saucony performance running sneakers and a lifestyle silhouette. Lei Takanashi, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025 One of the more notorious shootings occurred outside a sneaker store in Bay Ridge on June 23, 2023. Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sneaker 
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Noun
  • In the last few years, perhaps after an adaptive mutation, bird flu has jumped to a wide number of mammal species, including seals, bears, skunks, foxes, cougars, bobcats, dolphins and even a polar bear.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Spera said the animals included rabbits, chickens, a duck, a skunk, a dove and two cats.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Since graduation, Chen has racked up assignments in Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States and in Europe, often as the motormouth buffoons and weasels of classic comedies.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
  • When a weasel sucks eggs, the meat is sucked out of the egg.
    Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • Marvin’s snake of a drug lord brother, Knuckles (Daniel Wu), has a score to settle: His outfit’s legal eagle, Rose (Ariana DeBose), has stolen from him, though the money belongs to Russian overlords who make an 11th-hour appearance.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Read more Animals Dinosaurs: Groundbreaking Revelation Settles 30-Year-Old Debate Specialized Dog Breeds Are Not So Special After All Sharks are not the only species known to undergo parthenogenesis; the phenomenon has also been recorded in species of bird, fish, lizard and snake.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Below is a sneak peak at some popular songs that viewers will hear in the new episodes releasing Thursday.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The Application Process Can Be Very Telling The way a company handles its job application process can offer a sneak peak into its overall organizational culture and employee experience.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025

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“Sneaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sneaker. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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