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My flatware (which had been nipped from the airlines, so some of my diminutive place settings said both AA and "The Friendly Skies") remained intact in my dishwasher.

Serf Advisory 2005

My flatware (which had been nipped from the airlines, so some of my diminutive place settings said both AA and "The Friendly Skies") remained intact in my dishwasher.

Serf Advisory 2005

My flatware (which had been nipped from the airlines, so some of my diminutive place settings said both AA and "The Friendly Skies") remained intact in my dishwasher.

Serf Advisory 2005

The legislature passed it, and it kind of nipped around the edges, focused on new workers.

Storming the Castle 2010

Perhaps any relaible information should be given to Crimestoppers and Childline to stop it from being 'nipped' in the bud by any Brotherly officers in the council or local police.

Cyril-occhio: Needn't Work There, Could've Left 2008

M. OSM.ND: You know what I love is that he's 17, and we kind of nipped it in the bud before it got into those statistics.

CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2008 2008

O'BRIEN: Arwa, you know, we don't often hear about suicide bombing plots being kind of nipped in the bud, but that happened yesterday after a wild car chase.

CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2005 2005

He had bolted for good, vanished into the mysterious deeps of the primeval forest, whether hurt unto death, or merely "nipped" in a fore-leg, as Herb inclined to think, nobody knew.

Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook

Stephen had really come back for some tobacco, but as he passed under the windows he thought of the poor fellow who had been "nipped" (nothing serious, said Mrs. Failing), and determined to shout good-bye to him.

The Longest Journey 1924

Lloyd learned how the ship had been "nipped;" how, after inconceivable toil, the members of the expedition had gained the land; how they had marched southward toward the Chuckch settlements; how, at the eleventh hour, the survivors, exhausted and starving, had been rescued by the steam whalers; how these whalers themselves had been caught in the ice, and how the survivors of the Freja had been obliged to spend another winter in the Arctic.

A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886