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Recent Examples of chirp
Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
The research seems clear, concerning, and catastrophic, chirping like a one-point- twenty-one-gigawatt Doc Brown car alarm.
—Michael Alcée, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025
Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
But the fact that Rodrigues even tried to pull off a chirp while talking to about a dozen reporters helps to illustrate one of the things that Marchand brings to the Stanley Cup champions.
—Tim Reynolds, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
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Verb
The clip follows with a series of shots filmed inside the cave – a world first – as chicks chirp for their moms and dads, and would-be parents wander around looking for love.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
The research seems clear, concerning, and catastrophic, chirping like a one-point- twenty-one-gigawatt Doc Brown car alarm.
—Michael Alcée, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
Although Marchand doesn’t mind saying a few chirps here and there.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
But the fact that Rodrigues even tried to pull off a chirp while talking to about a dozen reporters helps to illustrate one of the things that Marchand brings to the Stanley Cup champions.
—Tim Reynolds, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chirp
Verb
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The brand’s offerings are playful yet powerful (peep its cult-fave blush duo) and have traces of Ta’s expertise baked into each and every product.—
Jennifer Chan,
StyleCaster,
30 Apr. 2025
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Carroll County's biggest annual tourist attraction brought smiles to the faces of those who peeped the community art display on Friday.—
Thomas Goodwin Smith,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The animals use complex clicks, squawks and whistles to call out to each other, fight and attract a mate.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Just one day before the milestone date, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins tweeted in support of the banner and Trump.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Last week a software engineer on X tweeted a photo from the set in New Jersey.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
16 May 2025
Noun
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But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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His grandson toddled over, climbed into his lap, accepted a kiss with a screech of delight, and scooted off again.—
Ben Ehrenreich,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This is true on a city bus, too, where the earbuds easily cut the bus engine noise and the higher-pitch squeals from the doors opening.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 May 2025
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Frontman Bryan Garris let out a mighty pig squeal as guest vocalist Poppy thrashed and screamed across the stage, dressed like an even more macabre girl from The Ring.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
12 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The volunteers then sat in the basement of Marsh Chapel, at Boston University, and listened to a Good Friday sermon piped in from the pulpit above them.—
Michael Pollan,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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People are lounging on floor cushions, nestled on the couch, mingling and making art by the communal table, and lining up in front of the bar—waiting as the bartender prepares their drink of choice: piping hot tea.—
Jasmine Ting,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
Noun
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As the birds practiced, their initial random squeaks gradually turned into melodies that closely matched their parents’ songs.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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And studies have shown that mice carrying human FOXP2 genes also make strange squeaks.—
Carl Zimmer,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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“Chirp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chirp. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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