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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chirred
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Luis was dressed in his hospital pyjamas; his pained breathing fogged his mask while the oxygen canister gurgled and whirred.
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Traffic hummed along the avenue, and machinery whirred at the tire shop.
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Recalling a former boss who whispered intimate good-byes to his appliances when his restaurant closed, Luca says that the head chef didn’t receive similar farewells from his employees.
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The toys clanked, the players held their breath and onlookers whispered strategies on the sidelines – until a winner was crowned.
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Experiments were running, discoveries being made, and conferences hummed with new ideas.
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Eye Patch rocked on the balls of his feet and hummed.
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“Chirred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chirred. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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