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"forms": [
{
"form": "snopeses",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "snopesing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "snopesed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
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"expansion": "snopes (third-person singular simple present snopeses, present participle snopesing, simple past and past participle snopesed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
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"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003 January 26, LadyMackSez, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Heh heh you got me.\nNo, I didn't Snopes it before replying.\nDamn. Shame on me.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003 January 27, Gus, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Why do people insist on \"re-SNOPESing\" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004 January 9, John Hatpin, “Diesel and electric motors on submarines”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "I remember the same doubt, and it's understandable that people would be skeptical about an amazing story like that. I had some spare time, hence the Googling and Snopesing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 January 11, **Rowland Croucher**, “More Darwin Awards”, in uk.rec.humour (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Now some of these are bogus, or semi-bogus... Check 'em out if you need to (I'm not gonna do your snopesing for you :-) - but why spoil a good story with some factuality? If some of these aren't true, they ought to be :-)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010 September 15, Ala, “Re: Bulletin: Obama May Not Run in 2012 -- Seriously!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Seriously why does he call himself an intelligent person when all he has to do is snopes stuff before sending out",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
],
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],
[
"accuracy",
"accuracy"
]
],
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"(transitive, rare) To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
],
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{
"word": "Snopes"
}
],
"tags": [
"rare",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"word": "snopes"
}
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"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "snopesing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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},
{
"form": "snopesed",
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"pos": "verb",
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"English lemmas",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"English transitive verbs",
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{
"ref": "2003 January 26, LadyMackSez, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Heh heh you got me.\nNo, I didn't Snopes it before replying.\nDamn. Shame on me.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003 January 27, Gus, “Stella Awards”, in misc.facts.straight-dope (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Why do people insist on \"re-SNOPESing\" things that have been proven time and time again are urban legends?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004 January 9, John Hatpin, “Diesel and electric motors on submarines”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "I remember the same doubt, and it's understandable that people would be skeptical about an amazing story like that. I had some spare time, hence the Googling and Snopesing.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009 January 11, **Rowland Croucher**, “More Darwin Awards”, in uk.rec.humour (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Now some of these are bogus, or semi-bogus... Check 'em out if you need to (I'm not gonna do your snopesing for you :-) - but why spoil a good story with some factuality? If some of these aren't true, they ought to be :-)",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010 September 15, Ala, “Re: Bulletin: Obama May Not Run in 2012 -- Seriously!”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-03",
"text": "Seriously why does he call himself an intelligent person when all he has to do is snopes stuff before sending out",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
],
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"(transitive, rare) To check (information) on the Web site snopes.com for accuracy."
],
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}
],
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"word": "Snopes"
}
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"word": "snopes"
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