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Recent Examples of chitter
The ice rocked four or five feet in each direction, and suddenly a group of penguins surfaced beside the kayak and started chittering.
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Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
Harding sings in the hooded, lower end of her range, and the music is filled with nighttime sounds—chittering percussion, organ.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
The picture of an American springtime usually looks something like this: sunny days, chittering birds, and, on many suburban streets, a congested driveway full of eager prospective homebuyers gathering for an open house.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
The group set out in the park to investigate chittering sounds that turned out to be a couple of white-breasted nut hatches.
—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
Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
Harding sings in the hooded, lower end of her range, and the music is filled with nighttime sounds—chittering percussion, organ.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
The picture of an American springtime usually looks something like this: sunny days, chittering birds, and, on many suburban streets, a congested driveway full of eager prospective homebuyers gathering for an open house.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
The group set out in the park to investigate chittering sounds that turned out to be a couple of white-breasted nut hatches.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chitter
chirp
Verb
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About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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Atkinson was chirping at Blair, which Black said was common (for Atkinson to be chirping at anyone), and there was a lot of contact.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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“Chitter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chitter. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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