chips 1 of 2

plural of chip

chips

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of chip

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chips
Noun
Instead of flammable mulch like bark or wood chips, use lava stone or coarse gravel around any shrubbery that is within 5 feet of the structure. Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Because each task requires vastly different amounts of memory, data, and compute power, Dacombe argues that separate chips will actually make the AI process more efficient, as long as the chips can effectively communicate with each other. Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 Researchers in Singapore have just unveiled a new type of data center prototype that uses living human neurons to process information instead of relying entirely on silicon chips. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026 Qualcomm’s mid-range chips don’t get the same level of support unless OEMs pay more, so Motorola would have to commit to that on a wider range of products. ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026 Even aside from the war games, chips seem to have become a locus of secrecy and international intrigue. Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026 Founded in the midst of the pandemic in 2020, Rebellions is among a group of semiconductor startups designing and deploying their own chips to rival market leader Nvidia. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 Made from wood chips and sawdust bound with resin, particleboard can swell when exposed to moisture, while screws and bolts can loosen over time. Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 14 Aug. 2026 In the offer, consumers get an entrée, chips and salsa and a non-alcoholic drink. Alex Harring, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chips
Noun
  • Tipsters may be eligible for a cash reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment.
    CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • About one in three home sales in the Bay Area were all cash from April through June, Redfin found.
    Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That line slices the plane into two halves, one of which will contain two corners of the outer triangle (the bottom half in the figure below).
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 10 Aug. 2026
  • You may already be accustomed to changing channels frequently since the NFL eagerly slices up its schedule across multiple networks.
    Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Commissioners say that the ruling will actually save consumers money in the long run, and that the more efficient tires are better for the environment.
    Tom Wait, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • If the patient is dosed less than what’s on the label, drugmakers generally get less money.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Consider two investors, one who invests $7,500 at the beginning of the year, and another who chops it up into $288 biweekly investments.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The proposal chops $150 million from the Developmental Disabilities Administration, which battled against the largest budget cut in last year's negotiations.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Apple AirTags are a favorite among flight attendants and frequent fliers because the coin-sized trackers can be slipped into luggage without sacrificing packing space.
    Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The much harder question is what happens to coins whose owners fail to migrate them in time.
    Joshua Hong, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Starling Marte mashes one The hometown fans, who appeared to be outnumbered among the 24,225 at The K, had something to cheer in the fourth inning.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase.
    Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
Noun
  • Most sportsmen wonder how any whitetail bucks, let alone a brute such as Kontras’, could have been so easily patterned.
    Jeff Murray, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Pole dancers bookend him and are showered with Usher bucks, his prop cash.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Alpha Binwani Capital's founder Ashwin Binwani said institutional investors remained positioned in carry trades against a basket of G10 currencies, led by the Australian dollar.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The suspect in a 2022 homicide believed there was a large amount of currency hidden in a chicken stand on Foothill Boulevard, but killed a man only to make off with a paltry $110, according to police.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

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“Chips.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chips. Accessed 23 Aug. 2026.

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