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Recent Examples of chirps
Verb
Yurov laughs hysterically and chirps back at Kreider.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu tweets that five passengers from the country were evacuated from the ship and one of them exhibited symptoms after boarding the evacuation flight.
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Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
PooCrave sprung to life five years later, and with its PopCrave-esque logo tweets out PopCrave-esque announcements that are patently false.
McGill’s superbly nuanced calls, runs, and trills elicited commentary from a second audience, perched in the trees above—a colloquium of finches, towhees, titmice, kingbirds, juncos, and Eurasian collared doves.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Musselwhite punctuated the music with his harmonica trills and moans while his right knee bounced in time with the rhythms.
One minute later, cackles rippled through my eardrums at a higher decibel than before.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
As evening falls, the clink of pints and bursts of cackles spill from Pat Collins Pub—where locals swap stories to the rhythm of fiddle tunes beneath an Irish twilight.
The Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority, which pipes fresh water from the mainland throughout the Keys, said in a statement that the break happened on Conch Key, which is about 14 miles north of the Middle Keys city of Marathon.
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David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
30 June 2026
The company also currently pipes water to 26 of its own data centers, and is working on more than 100 more such water reclamation projects.
Incense usually comes in either cone or stick form and is composed of fragrant material — usually resins, seeds, barks and flowers — that’s bound together using a combustible material.
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BestReviews,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
Caspar David Friedrich has sketchbooks of particular branches, twigs, barks of different trees.
Very few top teams play with two up front, but one side at least pips them — with reigning champions Argentina usually deploying Lionel Messi and Julian Alvarez as a duo.
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Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
15 June 2026
This is basically the company’s quick battery swapping system, which pips the Stark Varg EX’s plug-only capability.