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chirp

[churp] / tʃɜrp /


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The rising sun bathes the rolling Herefordshire hillsides in a warm glow as birds gently chirp and sheep graze in the fields.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

For the first time, astronomers had observed a supernova producing a quasi periodic signal that increased in frequency, forming a "chirp."

From Science Daily Mar. 11, 2026

“But if you had the same player chirp and chirp, that player that’s just always on you, literally anything they say goes through one ear and out the other.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

I could hardly take another disappointment delivered with a cheerful chirp to my inbox.

From Slate Jan. 2, 2025

Sometimes in the middle of the night, Luke’s would chirp and he’d hear Toby’s cracked voice, asking him to come to the plane.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

Starting Thursday afternoon and lasting throughout the night, chirps could be heard coming from one of the avian couple’s two eggs, perched high in a Jeffrey pine overlooking Big Bear Lake.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

“I’m going to put on my bathing suit right now!” she chirps from her bedroom, sounding happier than most about the prospect of changing into swimwear on a raw and cloudy afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

“This is Meredith,” a voice chirps, before Bezucha cuts from black to a shot of the back of a woman’s head, focusing on her hair that’s been tightly wound into a severe bun.

From Salon Oct. 15, 2025

While some find the buzzes, chirps and trills soothing or exciting, for others, the bugs are annoying or irritating.

From New York Times May 17, 2024

“The Chancellor couldn’t think of anything specific for me to do,” she chirps in a high squeaky voice, “so I will be looking for raw material for nanotech. Do you know anything about carbon nanotubes?”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Still, I admired its imagination as it toggled between people and pixels, and shivered when Conor chirped, “Maybe someday we’ll all be living in computers — even dogs.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2025

"Come back in a couple of weeks, and we'll talk then," the woman at the animal rescue chirped.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2024

Julie Hendricks-Atkins' colleagues chirped from their cubicles in Lower Manhattan.

From BBC Apr. 5, 2024

The team's independently developed chirped quasi-phase-matching device generates quantum-entangled light by harnessing chirping -- gradually changing an element's polarization reversal period -- to generate quantum photon pairs over a wide bandwidth.

From Science Daily Jan. 26, 2024

Xan chirped, hoping to encourage him to continue.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

When the driver moved it, the monkey began chirping and jumping inside.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

But the images also bring back “the chirping and the beeping,” the panic and urgency, and the toe-prick tests that made Jackson bruise and “squeal” with pain.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2026

I executed a couple of full-power stops from highway speeds—tires chirping, brake pedal chattering—and our SS slowed up, hard, straight and true.

From The Wall Street Journal May 30, 2026

Serene spa music, a blend of classical piano and loudly chirping birds, trilled in the background as the machine sloshed and gurgled.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2026

Alicia happily sucked her thumb and pointed at everything we passed, chirping, “What’s that? What’s that?”

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago




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