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chug

[chuhg] / tʃʌg /
VERB
drink quickly
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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

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

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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