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Recent Examples of tinkle
Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025
Now, new research suggests urination may function in a similar way: Captive chimpanzees that saw their peers peeing were more likely to take a tinkle themselves.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025
Eerie chants, tinkling percussion, zany strings, and plucky swelling piano.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The water fountains are trickling; wind chimes tinkle and shimmer in the breeze, and the store’s seemingly endless lines of indoor and outdoor décor are available to celebrate each season and occasion.
—Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2025
Now, new research suggests urination may function in a similar way: Captive chimpanzees that saw their peers peeing were more likely to take a tinkle themselves.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2025
Verb
The movie is antiquated sitcom, very much in an ‘80s vein, its veneer of schmaltz garnished with a tinkling score by Hans Zimmer that should come with a sugar-content warning.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Dec. 2025
Eerie chants, tinkling percussion, zany strings, and plucky swelling piano.
—Grace Byron, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tinkle
Noun
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The gift basket included items such as a rattle, books, swaddles, and a blanket, along with other essentials for new parents.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Jan. 2026
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Silver engraving, masks, totem poles, rattles, prints.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
16 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Picture a bunch of people descending in private jets to eat steak and appear on panels about alleviating poverty and fighting climate change (among other noble goals), while clinking cocktail glasses with other fellow rich people in an effort to make one another even richer.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
21 Jan. 2026
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Servers were trading off shifts and the bar was clinking away.—
Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The latest single’s biting percussion and synth clatter are owed in part to Styles’s longtime producer Kid Harpoon’s growing taste for the bespoke sounds of modular gear.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2026
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The clatter of rising shutters echoed through the empty streets, the occasional rambler scurried past, along the walls, bundled tightly in his coat, women walked by with milk bottles tucked in shawls wrapped around their chests.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2025
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The next signs of the nation’s political divide might be jingling in your pocket next year.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Cloudy chords, meditative tintinnabulation, the whoosh of wind and rain, blocks of iridescent brass — all these discrete sonorities trundled by, like a train of boxcars with panoramas painted on their sides.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Oct. 2021
Verb
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Both players threw down their gloves and their helmets and the bell rang.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
2 Feb. 2026
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Those words ring uncomfortably true today.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Tinkle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinkle. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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