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verb

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Recent Examples of chum
Noun
Another is an innovative roller coaster that turns to face soaring 3D screens showing Potter and his chums being chased through the vaults of Gringotts bank. Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025 Celebrity Infested Waters on ITV this evening and is hoping that solid ratings will be chum in the water for broadcasters and streaming services searching for more shark content. Peter White, Deadline, 14 July 2025
Verb
From modifying gill nets to employing chumming techniques, fishers are innovating to enhance catch efficiency while minimizing environmental impact. Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024 Recently, Trump’s been attending more UFC fights and chumming it up with Dana White. Makena Kelly, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chum
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chum
Noun
  • Instead of disclosing her condition to her employer and circles of friends, Sickler pulled back from modeling with little explanation, thinking that the absence of her hair would certainly result in the loss of her contract.
    Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Whenever family or friends came to visit, our first stop was always El's.
    Abby Price, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Out of the more than 30 people charged by federal prosecutors for illicit-gaming offenses, just three are associated with the NBA, and most of the evidence has nothing to do with basketball games.
    Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Misconstrued by many as something akin to an extended Henny Youngman routine, Portnoy’s Complaint more closely resembled, according to Albert Goldman, the comedic world of adolescent Roth and his buddies, with its audacity, ferocity, originality, and sheer fecundity.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Once buddies, Robert and Alfred are now rivals.
    Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The only surefire way to avoid this modern-day traveler's burnout is by taking the path less traveled.
    Travel + Leisure, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Law previously shared updates of Kinley as a baby, including the two of them traveling, playing together and dressing up.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That cost-cutting measure, which is common in other long-running shows, continued for the drama's 2025-26 season.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Trump made the announcement on Truth Social after the Canadian province of Ontario began running a television advertisement in the United States featuring a speech from former President Ronald Reagan.
    Steve Kopack, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Kristina bonded so quickly with Shannon!
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
  • As Prime Video prepares to return to the post-nuclear dystopia of Fallout, two major characters bonded over the desert wasteland.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Corals spawn by releasing eggs and sperm to mix in the water and settle, but ocean currents will prevent those reproductive cells from drifting south, Cunning said.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • By simulating thousands of powder and nanoparticle mixes, Citrine’s platform homed in on a high-strength alloy called AL 7A77, now used as the first 3D-printable aluminum powder that meets aerospace specs.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Where to stay One 1913 Beaux-Arts building and one modern structure joined by a courtyard, Ignacia Guest House has nine rooms, a pink lounge, a library, and a kitchen and dining space with French doors that lead outside.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The actor joined the cast in 2014.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Chum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chum. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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