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Recent Examples of cheep
Verb
Once laid, some eggs are sent away for incubation and replaced by smart fakes, which wiggle and cheep so that the mother is primed for her hatchling’s return.—The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019 The ducklings are safe and sound, though, after what seemed like an eternity huddled in terror and cheeping piteously at the drain’s bottom as the humans fought to open a manhole cover.—Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Twin Cities, 26 May 2017
Like new worlds where height flows in one direction only, as time does here
on Earth, such that once traversed, that perch
can’t be chirped upon again.
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Laura Kolbe,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2025
This weekend is the first weekend of spring, and the birds are chirping.
The occasional caw of a crow, the chickadee-dee-dee of a chickadee, the big song of the little Carolina wren that now stays on our Pennsylvania farm all winter.
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Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
Other names for the full moon in March include the eagle moon, goose moon, crow comes back moon and sugar moon, according to the Almanac.
The Republican conference is rife with sticking points as budget hawks squawk and some House Republicans insist on increasing the state and local tax deduction.
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Taylor Giorno,
The Hill,
30 Dec. 2024
There’s no dialogue, at least none decipherable to human ears — everything is a symphony of meows, woofs, squawks, grunts, squeaks, squeals and simian cries.
Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles.
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
Indeed, the company’s X account, which had not made a peep from November 2021 to May 2024, currently posts multiple times a day.
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