chiffchaff
noun
chiff·chaff
ˈchif-ˌchaf 
: a small grayish European warbler (Phylloscopus collybita)
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The Financial Times produces some of the best visual storytelling in journalism, and here audio and graphics bring infrasonic elephant rumbles and synthetic chiffchaff calls to life, conveying technical concepts like spectrograms and embedding spaces.
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Sam Firman, Longreads, 11 July 2024
Raskin has made a few-second chirp of a chiffchaff bird.
—Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
Sam Firman, Longreads, 11 July 2024
Raskin has made a few-second chirp of a chiffchaff bird.
—Camille Bromley, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2023
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“Chiffchaff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chiffchaff. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
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