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sniped

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past tense of snipe

as in plinked

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And, finally, new dungeons are being peppered throughout the new DLC zone to incentivize you to explore every nook and cranny.

— Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026
Evander Da Silva Ferreira scored his 13th goal — as Cincinnati peppered Seattle keeper Andrew Thomas with four shots in the 24th minute — to give Cincinnati a 1-0 lead.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026

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The plight of immigrants is one of the defining moral issues of our time, and more and more big name musicians are following the trail Parton blazed so long ago.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The trail to understanding fluids as the product of the microscopic world was blazed, ironically, by physicists thinking about some of reality’s biggest scales.

— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026

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