chummy
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I care less that OpenAI bought up a chummy podcast than about the validating effect of that podcast’s success on other aspirants in tech media.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026
When the two heads of government met at a summit in Egypt last October, Trump was chummy, playfully ribbing the tall Spanish leader about which of them would prevail on defense spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
A former economics professor, Jospin cast himself as a clean pair of hands compared to his conservative rival, the corruption-tainted but chummy and charismatic Jacques Chirac.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
Variety shared its account of Brown and Harbour gamely presenting a chummy front in a recent red carpet appearance.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2025
He clapped Matthias on the shoulder in a chummy way.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Holmes and Watson seem chummier than usual on a German-spy job for Queen Victoria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
Doesn’t get much quieter – or chummier – than a cozy little lunch with Bob on the screen porch overlooking the garden of his Georgetown manse, does it?
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2018
“You pull off a successful meeting, but at the same time, you’re not trying to pretend that you’re chummier than you really are.”
From Washington Times ● May 3, 2017
But their demeanor was more businesslike than the chummier encounters between Karzai and Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush.
From Reuters ● May 13, 2010
We shall be the chummier for Alden's absence.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson
Sure, maybe some of them aren’t on the chummiest of terms, but that’s not what put the debate at risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2019
That led to a fairly uncomfortable set of episodes in which the competing interests of TV’s chummiest cohosts were revealed.
From Time ● Apr. 26, 2016
In this chummy phase of the presidential race, Graham, 59, is proving to be the chummiest of a large and expanding Republican field.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2015
Still, that didn’t prevent them from being the chummiest of mortals on the tennis court and in the billiard-room.
From The Toys of Peace, and other papers by Saki
In it occurs this sentence: "The college girl is grammatical in speech, but she has the jolliest, chummiest jargon of slang that ever rolled from under a pink tongue."
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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