Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Desultory firing by an enemy into a camp or force on the march; sharp-shooting: so called from the methods of snipe shooters.
- Characteristic of the firing of a sharp-shooter; desultory; irregular; unexpected: said of shooting.
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- verb Present participle of
snipe .
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Examples
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You might want to check your facts before you engage in "sniping from the sidelines". marsavian
NASA ESAS Study Appendices Show up on Pay-Per Use Site - NASA Watch 2009
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I suspect the sniping is all being orchestrated by one disgruntled driver.
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I suspect the sniping is all being orchestrated by one disgruntled driver.
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Of course, it doesn't hurt that Olbermann's delivery is quite simply the best in broadcast journalism, but he also had something to say, and he said it and he meant it and he didn't give a damn about the inevitable sniping from the sidelines, he was taking that ball all the way downfield.
- r_urell 2009
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There are so few reporters left in town that sniping is reducto ad absurdum.
Chasse was kicked or stomped in the back (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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This requires actual engagement rather than sniping from the sidelines, so it'd be out of character for NASAWatch, but I think it's still possible.
NASA ESAS Study Appendices Show up on Pay-Per Use Site - NASA Watch 2009
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It can also be economic - if bids are at least partly dependant on other bids, then the sniper, by sniping, is denying rivals information they would use to set their bids.
eBay, Fun, and Social Waste, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But after enough experience, you can tell the sniping from the constructive commentary.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast 2010
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Instead of sniping from the side lines he should stand up and be counted.
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You total coward, sniping from the back of the room with a paper bag over your head. you are pathetic and you make yourself look stupid.
Craig Murray - Honest campaigner ? Norfolk Blogger 2009
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MUCH OF KRUGER’S early work began as street posters: She would print hundreds of them at a small commercial printer on Little West 12th and Gansevoort and, in a process known as “sniping,” would plaster them around New York City, on boarded windows and construction sites, a kind of pre-internet bulletin board.
Barbara Kruger Offers a Dark Mirror for Our Meme-Driven Age Megan O’Grady 2020
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