chipping

/ ˈtʃɪpɪŋ /

noun

1. another name for chip

Example Sentences

The government source said there had been "a lot of navel-gazing" about what Caerphilly means for Labour, including "people chipping in who didn't knock a door".

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Capsey was furious to throw her wicket away, chipping to mid-off having already been dropped on 28, but it was another stroke of tactical nous from Wolvaardt which put the nail in the coffin.

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Red Bull's Max Verstappen also remains very much in the hunt, still 36 points off the lead - but chipping away at that advantage.

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It’s led some analysts to wonder if Google’s application-specific integrated circuits are chipping into Nvidia’s stronghold in the market for AI semiconductors.

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The snowball method is a way to motivate people by chipping away at the number of debts they owe, but paying down the highest rate first makes the most sense to me.

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Related Words

• chop 
• crack 
• hack 
• nick 
• splinter 
• whack