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Recent Examples of snuffleClick for more > Clearly, this is no ordinary sea creature quietly snuffling the currents.—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010 Next to arrive is her disembodied trunk, with a mind of its own, snuffling out friends and enemies and food.—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024 Elephants are trampling the thirsty turf, sending sprays of dust into the dry savannah air, and buffalos are bent with their snuffling snouts to the ground.—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023 Local residents popped in to buy vegetables from a shack built out of recycled materials, while an enormous sow snuffled in the heather beside a vegetable garden.—Hisako Ueno, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023 There is an amazing array of puzzles that require dogs to roll, shake, lick or snuffle a product to access food or treats.—Melanie D.g. Kaplan, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023 Two canines in Massachusetts are the first to be used by a law enforcement agency to snuffle the virus.—David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2021 At night, wild boars snuffled outside the tents, searching for food scraps.—New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020 If any swine is fit to be an organ donor for people, then the dozens of pigs snuffling around Qihan Bio’s facility in Hangzhou, China, may be the best candidates so far.—Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 19 Dec. 2019
Fey and Forte play a couple who have to sniff out which of their other married pals are on the brink of divorce across four vacations.
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Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
The Education Department's shift toward sniffing out insufficiently patriotic lesson plans comes at the same time as the Trump administration is terminating DOE employees, including more than a dozen from the Office of Civil Rights.
Odell orders Griff to prepare him a still-purple unicorn steak (the rarest of delicacies, in every sense), while ex-addict Shepard simply can’t resist snorting the powder obtained from grinding the coveted horn.
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2025
Third, something large was growling and snorting at me inside the lodge.
Though the trio worked on the song and completed a rough mix, the sound quality on Lennon’s vocals wasn’t up to snuff, and the song was ultimately shelved.
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Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
Alcaraz dropped only four of his first-serve points in the second set and snuffed out the three break point chances Dimitrov had in the fifth game.
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Staff and news service reports,
Orange County Register,
13 Mar. 2025
Ferreira sobs hysterically, spouts horrific recounts of an abusive childhood, and slowly opens up, all in the span of a two-hour film.
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Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
The virtual meeting, between Fish & Wildlife human resources officials and probationary employees across the country, lasted almost 20 minutes and was recorded by a number of people on the line, including one worker who can be heard sobbing in the background.
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