chug
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So far, the broader market has continued to chug higher.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Meanwhile, SSE continues to chug forward amid mixed weather conditions and consistent profit expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor left Windsor not with a regal fanfare, but with the chug of removal lorries, heading for Norfolk in the night.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
But an array of other indicators show the economy continuing to chug along, albeit with the labor market in its low-hire, low-fire mode.
From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025
Putting one foot after the other, I chug up the stairs, my arms and legs starting to burn as I drag my body up to the fifth floor.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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Fulton lured 40 friends and relatives on board and chugged all the way to Albany and back, covering 300 miles in 62 hours—an astounding pace of nearly 5 miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Massie even chugged a celebratory glass of raw milk.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
“Let Me Roll It” had a funky swagger, while “Getting Better” chugged with cheerful insistence; “I’ve Just Seen a Face” showed off the group’s crisp harmonies and “Lady Madonna” its tight rhythmic interplay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2026
At one point on Thursday the train chugged past a queue of trucks waiting for fuel -- the trains themselves run on diesel, with the state railway company maintaining its own stocks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
As the Singer sewing machine chugged up and down creating stitches in my blue-and-white elementary school uniform, I wondered why my brothers did not wear uniforms to school.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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As Banderas plays him, he’s a bearish marvel of a man with the kind of earthy soul that would have had Ernest Hemingway chugging salty dogs on his barstool all night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Walk around New York and you'll likely hear the chugging of petrol generators powering the city's tens of thousands of food carts.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Two years ago, with the economy chugging along and inflation falling, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dispatched a question about stagflation with humor rather than scorn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
The country’s export juggernaut is chugging along ahead of President Trump’s visit to Beijing later this month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
What I didn’t expect was that at three-thirty, before Dad come home, here’s Doc Murphy’s car chugging up the lane, and he’s got Shiloh in the backseat.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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