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Recent Examples of chirps
Michael Russo, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
Yurov laughs hysterically and chirps back at Kreider.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chirps
Verb
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The temperature plunges; Reilly’s trills harden into an Old World dirge.—
Brad Shoup,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The kitchen also pipes its own spiral sausage using a Calabrian pepper pork sausage from Lottie’s Meats, a Denver business started by sisters Chelsey and Cassie Maschhoff.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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As evening falls, the clink of pints and bursts of cackles spill from Pat Collins Pub—where locals swap stories to the rhythm of fiddle tunes beneath an Irish twilight.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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The concert promoted by the right-wing group founded by the late Charlie Kirk and now run by his widow, Erika, is in response to conservatives outraged over the NFL’s selection of Grammy-winning music superstar Bad Bunny, who sings primarily in Spanish, as the halftime act.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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From the opening to the ending, everybody sings every word to every song.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One hums with high-speed drills and anxiety; the other echoes with joyful barks and tail wags.—
Henry I. Miller,
STAT,
28 Jan. 2026
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On our third day, a late-afternoon beach landing on Sante Fe deposited us amid a colony of sleeping sea lions, their barks and coughs reverberating across the sandy shore.—
Julia Zaltzman,
Robb Report,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Two of the monkeys had applauded the event with hopping and grunts, but the other three had shot like arrows into the trees, chasing after the peculiar bird that had remained indifferent to their antics.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Wrestlers are rewarded for greater effort, more force and louder grunts.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Late that afternoon, Flint was sitting quietly against his tree and using a Primos can call to make bleats.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
3 Dec. 2025
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Busting out a box of instruments that turned the room into a riot of noise, Sheeran then encourage each student to share their unique sound into the mic, from saxophone bleats to fart sounds.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Chirps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chirps. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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