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A while back, a discerning city-dweller saw an SUV on the Los Angeles streets — the Range Rover of “Carpool Karaoke” fame, with host and guest sitting chummily up front.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022

Characters and plot points have equivalents in the play, but he has stretched into new themes in a wholly different milieu: a circle of glitteringly witty, chummily affectionate, gay New Yorkers.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2019

When you see publishers and authors chatting chummily at book parties, you’re likely to think that they’re on the same side — the side of great literature and the free flow of ideas.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2019

There are photos of them posing chummily together, grinning.

From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2017

“Well,” said Bunny chummily, his voice booming in the tense silence, “I’d apologize for dragging you away from your book if you hadn’t brought it with you. What you got there? Any good?”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt