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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

…

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noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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Dictionary Entry

snipper

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/snip-er/

A person or thing that snips, especially scissors or shears.

In a Sentence

“The gardener used a sharp snipper to trim the rose bush.”

Origin

From the verb 'snip' meaning to cut, with the agent suffix '-er'.

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Synonyms

cuttershearerscissorsclippersnippers

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Related Words

snipsnippingsnipssnip-offsnip-outsnip-upsnip-down

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