chime
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By calling for the early review, the FCC allowed petitioners and ordinary residents to chime in on the stations’ operations and ABC network programming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The White House is racing to hammer out policies while the tech world and moral authorities chime in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Soccer, on the other hand, is defined by constant activity: two unbroken 45-minute halves, with no pause for a soda brand or insurance company to chime in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Jackson is just the latest star to chime in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
The doors opened with a chime, and Ella felt pulled inside.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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For the uninitiated, a sound bath is where a practitioner plays crystal or Tibetan sound bowls, gongs and chimes in a soothing way.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
“It’s so not casual,” Shawkat chimes in, helpfully.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
I’d be curious if Peters chimes in on the question, having changed his mind on acquisitions not long ago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
"I think it chimes really well with my generation of people-pleasing," she says.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
The phone chimes and Director Van Helsing answers on the first ring.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Dr. Fauci chimed in: “There are no data or theoretical reason to believe that vaccinating early versus later in pregnancy would be preferred.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"So it is!" chimed in an off-duty fireman nearby.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
I think his son Rex Jones chimed in.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
All this might have been dismissed as frivolous chatter - until state media and authorities chimed in with stern words for Xie.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
"No you don't, Papi, they're private!" his daughters chimed in, crowding around him, wanting to spare each other the embarrassment of having their gushing made public.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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But as the Canadian prime minister was talking, Trump, frustrated with a technical issue that prevented him from chiming in, lobbed the device over the Resolute Desk and onto the floor, an official present said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In the years that followed, whenever she popped up in the news, Trump couldn’t stop himself from chiming in.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
“We specialize in craft lattes…we have breakfast burritos,” Marcos said, with the beaming mayor chiming in “Oh boy!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
Whitaker apologized for a text message chiming in during our conversation: “The cast group chat is blowing me up,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
The grandfather clock tolled the hour, chiming three times after the introductory melody.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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