chips in

present tense third-person singular of chip in
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as in contributes
to make a donation as part of a group effort we all chipped in and bought flowers for the secretaries

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as in interrupts
chiefly British to cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion forgive me in chipping in like this, but I think I know a better way to get to Trafalgar Square

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Recent Examples of chips in Nvidia's backstops can take many forms, such as guaranteeing a minimum resale price or a minimum hourly offtake price for the chips in the event the lender has to recoup the assets. — Kif Leswing,isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026 Nvidia’s share of data center chips in China fell to 34% in the first half of 2026, while shipments of its AI accelerators dropped by 44% compared to a year earlier, according to IDC data cited by Reuters. — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026 By giving each box the job of handling just a couple of these layers, the team was able to run Gemma entirely and get responses back from just the weak chips in these boxes. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026 And the extra chocolate chips in the dip tied everything together, while the cookie added a satisfying chew that the cannoli chips couldn’t quite replicate. — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026 Place the remaining ¼ cup (45 g) chocolate chips in a small microwave-safe bowl and heat at 50% power in 10-second increments, stirring well with a rubber spatula after each, until melted, about 30 seconds total. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 Anthropic’s total on-paper loss stood at $42 billion in 2025, and the company plans to spend $518 billion on data centers and chips in the coming years. — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 Pour hot cream over 1 1/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl; let stand 2 to 3 minutes. — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026 For reference, Intel released the first Kabylake chips in 2016, while AMD released the first Zen 2 models in 2019. — Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
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  • Open standards for agentic systems are still being drafted; the Agentic AI Foundation, hosted by the Linux Foundation and launched in late 2025, exists to coordinate those standards, and my company contributes to that work.
    — Antoni Kozelski, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Information for this article was contributes by Ed White of The Associated Press.
    — KIM CHANDLER, Arkansas Online, 6 Nov. 2026
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  • No one says anything truly random — the Apple siblings are always inspiring another pertinent story among the group; everyone listens like students at the front of the class; no one even interrupts.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Rama agrees to the meeting and to Kala’s condition that anyone who witnesses or interrupts their conversation will be put to death.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

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“Chips in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chips%20in. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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