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Recent Examples of cheep
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Once laid, some eggs are sent away for incubation and replaced by smart fakes, which wiggle and cheep so that the mother is primed for her hatchling’s return.—The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019 The ducklings are safe and sound, though, after what seemed like an eternity huddled in terror and cheeping piteously at the drain’s bottom as the humans fought to open a manhole cover.—Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 26 May 2017
The agency's acting director Leland Dudek has announced plans to cut 7,000 of its 57,000 staff members, although personnel is already at a record low and the number of eligible recipients at an all-time high.
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Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
For example, the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence survey had already dropped by 18.9 points from its November post-election peak through March, before April’s 7.9 decline brought the measure back to the 2020 pandemic lows.
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.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
His grandson toddled over, climbed into his lap, accepted a kiss with a screech of delight, and scooted off again.
But their eggs and hatchlings can get crushed by tractors; they’re also being eaten by foxes, crows and sheep.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Apr. 2025
The occasional caw of a crow, the chickadee-dee-dee of a chickadee, the big song of the little Carolina wren that now stays on our Pennsylvania farm all winter.
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Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Berry Fizz At Mission Ceviche in Union Square and Upper East Side, a strawberry and cherry blend with lemon, topped with rose bubbly with a rim of dehydrated berries, sugar and peep.
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Aly Walansky,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles.
This leads us to the crux...or perhaps the clucks...of my story.
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Phil Kafarakis,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
Chickens run and cluck around the Bennet home; the family’s clothes look worn, at times even dirty; the houses are cluttered, the people messy, their interactions chaotic.
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