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Recent Examples of chirp
Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Birds chirping, wind chimes ringing, fountains splashing—the symphony of life in the El Medio Bluffs was unmistakable.
—Ed Massey, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
Instead of a bland playlist, you ears will pick up on the cheerful chirps of finches from their nine-foot-tall birdcages.
—Katie Chang, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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Verb
This ranges from the everyday meowing and purring; to yowling to indicate distress; chattering when spotting prey outside of its reach; and chirping to communicate with kittens, according to PetMD.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Birds chirping, wind chimes ringing, fountains splashing—the symphony of life in the El Medio Bluffs was unmistakable.
—Ed Massey, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
Panthers center Sam Bennett, who had a contentious altercation with Marchand in Round 2 of the playoffs last year, said Marchand’s first message after being added to the team group chat was a chirp.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2025
Instead of a bland playlist, you ears will pick up on the cheerful chirps of finches from their nine-foot-tall birdcages.
—Katie Chang, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chirp
Verb
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Each of the game’s different courses are fully available to drive through at pace to peep for collectibles (there’s hundreds) and alternate paths to remember later in races.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
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Sophos also warns you any time a program accesses your webcam, to foil peeping spyware.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 June 2025
Noun
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The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
Verb
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But the surprise was spoiled when the news of Sosa’s return was tweeted Friday morning.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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The funny thing is, that meme was invoke by Warner Bros. Discovery itself when the company tweeted its own jokes about the Max name change on the Max X account.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The constant clang of metal and the screech of drills suggest the sort of work underway at a warehouse-turned-workshop in this Ukrainian city about 300 kilometers (180 miles) east of Kyiv.—
Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 June 2025
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The trio frantically scramble to stop the train, but as the film cuts to black, the sounds of glass shattering and the screech of wheels hammer in, yet again, that there’s no escape.—
Gayle Sequeira,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
Noun
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The gym was quiet, echoing only the squeal of sneakers and pounding of the basketball instead of the music and laughter that typically accompany a pregame training session.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
5 June 2025
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Their squeals and laughter echoed against the mountains.—
Nathan Rousseau Smith,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2025
Verb
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At the start of Act Two - around 9 p.m. on performance evenings - composer Andrew Lloyd Weber's music is piped outside the theater into London's narrow Argyll Street.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
26 June 2025
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Besides piping plovers, there are two others on the federal list.—
Jan Ellen Spiegel,
Hartford Courant,
23 June 2025
Noun
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The gray puppy repeatedly makes silent barking motions until a high-pitched squeak finally escapes her mouth.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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Her squeaks and sighs are my favorite noises on earth.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
12 May 2025
Verb
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Evening had fallen, and bats chittered in the sky outside.—
Pete McKenzie,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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In early 2020, Daniel Bachman stood at the edge of a creek in Falmouth, Virginia, recording the sounds of the insects chittering and buzzing around him.—
Brendan Fitzgerald,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Chirp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chirp. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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