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Next to arrive is her disembodied trunk, with a mind of its own, snuffling out friends and enemies and food.
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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
Whether that will help the person softly snuffling in the last bathroom stall because their expense report got returned for a third time isn't clear.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
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
Whether that will help the person softly snuffling in the last bathroom stall because their expense report got returned for a third time isn't clear.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snuffle
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Viewers who didn’t sniff out these blueberry-scented screenings won’t be missing anything essential when Heretic opens, odorless, on November 8.James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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The animal then seems to sniff something before turning its body to scurry away.Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Consider nasal sprays or other medications: Steroid sprays can reduce inflammation in your nose, and antihistamines help stop sneezing, sniffling, and itching.Dominique Fluker, Essence, 22 Oct. 2024
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Figuring out whether symptoms like sniffling, sneezing, coughing, and a sore throat are from cold or allergies can be tricky.Lauren Schlanger, Verywell Health, 11 Oct. 2024
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The drug is usually either ingested in pill form or snorted as a powder but is rarely injected.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Oct. 2024
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As Allison snorted earlier this season, the Umbrellas have already prevented the end of the world three times over the course of the series.Scott Meslow, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2024
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The video shows Daisy standing and staring out the window, whining and panting as a shelter member tries to comfort her.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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ZeroZero touts the fact that the Beacon has a microphone which can be used to record the sound around you while the ProMax is in flight, aided by noise-reduction algorithms that eliminate the sound of the drone's whining motors.Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2024
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Is the 'Bachelor House' snoring the new guacamole scandal?Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
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Use a sleep aid: If snoring is an issue, Dr. Landsness recommends sleeping with earplugs and/or white noise machines.Lindsay Boyers, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024
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Tom Felton, who played the sniveling Slytherin in every Potter film, wrote a tribute to the actress on Instagram.Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
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Still, the war between the virtuous Autobots and the sniveling Decepticons has enough sheer weirdness to it to serve as inspiration for compelling fiction, even if Michael Bay has never managed to crack that code.Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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The Titans’ best chance to score was snuffed out near the end of the first half when Mountain View’s Kaitlyn Liddle roared in to sack sophomore quarterback Kelsey Peterson.Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 2 Nov. 2024
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When your gaming laptop isn’t up to snuff, your gameplay seriously suffers.Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 22 Oct. 2024
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The teen slumped in a chair, sobbing, in a Los Angeles Police Department interrogation room.Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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Any millennial pop-culture enthusiast worth their salt sobbed over the ending of Stepmom (1998), when Susan Sarandon’s dying mother insists on taking a family photo that includes the young stepmother (Julia Roberts) she’s given grief to throughout the movie.Eliza Berman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Snuffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snuffle. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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