Examples of chop-chop in a Sentence
I need this project done chop-chop
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Islamists battled for their own theocratic nation, and bands of Christian cultists—whom locals, naming them according to their most notorious act, called chop-chop—severed the heads of those deemed unholy in villages and towns across Mindanao.
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Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
To put the end to these threats the new management made the chop-chop square work double time to demonstrate what will happen to zealots who want the country to stay behind.
—Alex Zhavoronkov, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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“Chop-chop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chop-chop. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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