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Recent Examples of chirp
Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 14 May 2025
But some Nuggets fans, as Gilgeous-Alexander said postgame, were chirping at him.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 May 2025
Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
From its facial expressions to its distinctive chirp, the creature is wreathed in a kind of nostalgia that Eighties kids will remember from those early days trolling the VHS rack at their local Blockbuster.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
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Verb
Asked about Tkachuk and the verbal jousting with Nylander near the end of Game 4, Domi was nonplussed about the subject of chirping between teams.
—Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 14 May 2025
But some Nuggets fans, as Gilgeous-Alexander said postgame, were chirping at him.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 May 2025
Noun
Drivers build lives around parking: the work shifts altered to align with the alternate-side-rotation hours, the keys always in the pocket, the Pavlovian alertness at the chirp of an unlocking car.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
From its facial expressions to its distinctive chirp, the creature is wreathed in a kind of nostalgia that Eighties kids will remember from those early days trolling the VHS rack at their local Blockbuster.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chirp
Verb
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Sophos also warns you any time a program accesses your webcam, to foil peeping spyware.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 June 2025
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The 1,000-pound animals peep their heads from the white stalls, while others amble in circles inside the barn's wooden fence.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
12 May 2025
Noun
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The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
Verb
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McDonald's customers have been clamoring for the return of the snack wraps for years, starting petitions, asking about it in the drive-thru lanes and tweeting daily at McDonald's official X account.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
3 June 2025
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Carney tweeted, angrily and profanely, about how the band got screwed but deleted them to avoid being sued.—
Stuart Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Lately, there has been one with a hoarse screech calling me.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
27 May 2025
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But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The gym was quiet, echoing only the squeal of sneakers and pounding of the basketball instead of the music and laughter that typically accompany a pregame training session.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 2025
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Their squeals and laughter echoed against the mountains.—
Nathan Rousseau Smith,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But SpaceX has also had to build large ground stations around the world, known as gateways, to pipe data into space from the terrestrial Internet.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2025
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Aisha Tyler, who plays Dr. Tara Lewis on the long-running crime drama, opened up about the girls-only festivities where the rosé's flowing and the gossip is piping hot — and which of her costars is most jealous to not score an invite — during this week's PEOPLE in 10.—
Carson Blackwelder,
People.com,
11 June 2025
Noun
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Her squeaks and sighs are my favorite noises on earth.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
12 May 2025
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So the first 100 days were dominated by the satisfying squeak of Sharpie on paper as Trump fired off executive action after executive action.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
2 May 2025
Verb
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In early 2020, Daniel Bachman stood at the edge of a creek in Falmouth, Virginia, recording the sounds of the insects chittering and buzzing around him.—
Brendan Fitzgerald,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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In early 2020, Daniel Bachman stood at the edge of a creek in Falmouth, Virginia, recording the sounds of the insects chittering and buzzing around him.—
Brendan Fitzgerald,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Chirp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chirp. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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