Snark will get you any way it can, fore and aft, and to hell with consistency. In a media society, snark is an easy way of seeming smart. […] Snark doesn't create a new image, a new idea. It's parasitic, referential, insinuating.

She liked his smile. There was neither snark nor megalomania in it, as characterized so many smiles these days.

When the auctioneer had exhausted his vocabulary in describing the merits of an animal, his winding-up formula was "One times! two times! three times!" Then the hammer gave a tap, and he and our party would devote our energies to discovering the last bidder - a research which generally was as promising as the hunting of the snark.

Remy said Dad was hunting snarks; at the time, she'd thought it was a euphemism.

Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.

2019, Anca Nitulescu, Lattice-Based Zero-Knowledge SNARGs for Arithmetic Circuits, Peter Schwabe, Nicolas Thériault (editors), Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2019: 6th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 11774, page 223,
SNARG vs. SNARK. If we replace the computational soundness with computational Knowledge Soundness we obtain what we call a SNARK, a succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge.

2020, Fuyuki Kitagawa, Takahiro Matsuda, Takashi Yamakawa, NIZK from SNARG, Rafael Pass, Krzysztof Pietrzak (editors), Theory of Cryptography: 18th International Conference, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, LNCS 12550, page 568,
Actually, what is often used in blockchains is a SNARK [4], which is a stronger variant of a SNARG that satisfies extractability.

2023, Matteo Campanelli, Chaya Ganesh, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh, Janno Siim, Impossibilities in Succinct Arguments: Black-Box Extraction and More, Nadia El Mrabet, Luca De Feo, Sylvain Duquesne (editors), Progress in Cryptology - AFRICACRYPT 2023: 14th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 14064, page 467,
Whether we can build SNARKs with black-box extraction in the standard model is an elusive problem. […] In particular, we show that a SNARG can be lifted to a SNARK with the features above for the class of languages FewP (roughly, NP with polynomial many witnesses).

Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”

Ah! That was "snark". You snark when your blood sugar is low. I know how to help you. Pizza. Humans seem to find calm in the consumption of food.

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