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Recent Examples of chitter
The group set out in the park to investigate chittering sounds that turned out to be a couple of white-breasted nut hatches.
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Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
Evening had fallen, and bats chittered in the sky outside.
—Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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
Where birds and frogs and rodents once chirped and croaked and chittered, the forest is silent, save for the sounds of passing cars.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
Much of the internet chittering around TTPD has been over which songs are about Healy vs. which are about Taylor Swift’s other recent ex, Joe Alwyn.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
Squirrels chittered at us loudly from the windblown trees.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
Spooky season has long tapped into humans' deepest fears, and the creepy, crawling, and chittering creatures can make even the strongest of us shudder with disgust, especially in numbers.
—Sarah Sprague, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 22 Sep. 2025
Evening had fallen, and bats chittered in the sky outside.
—Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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
Where birds and frogs and rodents once chirped and croaked and chittered, the forest is silent, save for the sounds of passing cars.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
Much of the internet chittering around TTPD has been over which songs are about Healy vs. which are about Taylor Swift’s other recent ex, Joe Alwyn.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2024
Squirrels chittered at us loudly from the windblown trees.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
Spooky season has long tapped into humans' deepest fears, and the creepy, crawling, and chittering creatures can make even the strongest of us shudder with disgust, especially in numbers.
—Sarah Sprague, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chitter
chirp
Verb
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His fun chirping with an OU lineman is, though.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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Her Cornish Rex cat, Rabbit, is sprawled out on the floor, unconcerned by the two birds (Chicken and Charlie) chirping from an adjacent office or a colleague’s gray-haired cat next door, who seems to be causing a stir.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Chitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chitter. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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