chin music

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Recent Examples of chin music But during his acceptance speech for the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, Jay-Z took the opportunity to throw some chin music at the Recording Academy. Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 5 Feb. 2024 And many of our plants leaned into that chin music to less than stellar results. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2023 It’s called chin music. Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2021 For all the chin music about SUV-like design, the profile hides the minivan quotient like a silk sheet conceals an elephant. Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021 That might result in some chin music, but Baez likely won't tone it down anytime soon. Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chin music
Noun
  • The chat was organized by Michael Waltz, whom Trump later removed as national security adviser.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025
  • The details were relayed in two chat groups that included Hegseth - one with Vice President JD Vance and other high-ranking officials, and a second one that included Hegseth's wife, who is not employed by the government.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Tariffs, recession chatter, political uncertainty -- these factors are upending the sales environment for mainstream and luxury automakers alike.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 June 2025
  • An etiquette expert and the author of a new book about manners is causing plenty of online chatter about the proper way to eat a banana and other common handheld foods.
    Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Provide questions that go deeper than typical small talk.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • That should’ve been that, but my Midwestern manners got the best of me, and my first question to the two-time Emmy winner, one-time Tony winner, and all-time comic great became nothing more than polite, near-rhetorical, small talk.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • But if confirmed, the Russian advance would be a setback for Ukrainian forces at a time when peace talks have stalled.
    Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 8 June 2025
  • He’s started bypassing them, the City Hall reporters, in favor of talk podcasts, conservative outlets, and the remaining bits of the ethnic media that still exists in the city.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Each monthly box includes three recipe guides, skill lessons, a kitchen tool, a kitchen project, an apron patch, table talk cards, and a grocery list.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Almost everything about Thanksgiving, from travel to table talk about politics, has the potential to become fraught.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024

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“Chin music.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chin%20music. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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