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"Baby Shark", in which a shark family is introduced one by one to a chirpy tune, is a global megahit and has featured as a Macy's parade balloon in New York.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
A ZSL spokesperson said: "Lily and Margot are both in good condition and their usual loud, chirpy selves, although a little tired from their long flight from London to Cambridgeshire."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2024
When I get Arbuckle on the phone, he is giving his stepdaughter a bath and I can hear her chirpy voice in the background over the running water.
From Salon ● May 12, 2024
But before the run-and-jump platforming action begins, a little yellow flower has a message for Team Mario: “I believe in youuu!” it says in a chirpy, sing-songy voice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
He made these chirpy noises like the windows rolling down.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
The lovelier the photo, the chirpier the caption, the louder the scream.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2018
Shelby Smith has chosen a chirpier path: crickets.
From Washington Times ● May 12, 2018
At a rack filled with the basketed two-wheelers, I eased into a saddle and rang the tinkly bell — chirpier than the Champ’s horn.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2016
Picture the scene, a Neville family meal: Phil baked brown by the Spanish sun; Gary chirpier than usual after another England victory.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2015
Rani sounds chirpier than I've ever heard before.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
At 22, the former Billy Elliot and sometime Game of Thrones actor is the youngest and chirpiest of the cast – and the one least versed in the war before the shoot began.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2020
The harsh, surreal environment can do funny things to the chirpiest person’s moods, and the best thing to do is to accept it.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2014
The chirpiest soldier in the whole outfit was Signalling Sergeant Calder, who was one of the shortest men in the regiment.
From "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by John Allister Currie
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