chime in

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as in to interrupt
to cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion "I don't like that show at all," my friend chimed in

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Recent Examples of chime in The video quickly amassed some 300,000 likes, with followers chiming in about the mishap in the comments section. Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025 The viral post, which received more than 3,000 upvotes on Reddit, is filled with dozens of comments of fellow travelers chiming in with their own tips and tricks using personal experiences solving delay problems. Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2025 But what the industry also needs to understand, chimed in Patrik Frisk, CEO of materials regeneration firm Reju, is that textile-to-textile recycling, at least at scale, is an entirely new supply chain. Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 22 Oct. 2025 Fellow PayPal mafia member Elon Musk, who runs xAI, an AI lab not listed in Hoffman’s post, also chimed in with a one-word endorsement of Sacks. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for chime in
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  • While resting on the boat, Victor begins telling his story to the ship’s captain, Anderson (Lars Mikkelsen), but is interrupted midway by the Creature, who has made it aboard.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Seven of the past 11 days of racing at the Vuelta were cut short or interrupted because Spain's government estimated more than 100,000 people were on the streets in Madrid during the final stage in September.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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  • This latent ability to reason autonomously enables agentic AI solutions to blend seamlessly into existing security workflows.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Its success at the time, mostly with mass market brands, paved the way for the arrival of Taikoo Li Chengdu, considered one of China’s best luxury retail destinations for blending historical preservation with a high-brow shopping experience.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2025
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  • Kansas City Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Schmid on Friday said concern about future inflation led to his vote against this week’s quarter-point cut in the benchmark fed fund rate.
    Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In the background, some analysts are now resigned to the notion that Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s remarks on Wednesday were gloomier than expected and that there may not be another interest rate cut in December.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
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  • Morelli also corresponded with the man obtaining the videos for him and asked that the torture of the animals be prolonged in subsequent videos, according to a copy of the indictment filed in the case and obtained by PEOPLE.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • This new forecast corresponds to upside of around 11%.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025
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  • In recent days, tremor patterns at the summit have been consistent with periods of low tremor that correlate with ponds filling with magma and tremor spikes related to magma drainback, according to the USGS.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Either way, this continues a recent pattern in which stock indexes have been positively correlated with Treasury yields, as shown here.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025

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