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As the Dauphine and Cavalieri, Thomas and Jaster make starving for attention into a show of flamboyance — she tittering shamelessly and he performing a full actor’s warm-up for a simple game of charades.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2022

Newspaper accounts of the trial suggest a rollicking scene, the full-house crowd tittering when one of the lawyers recited the poem’s contentious passages.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2021

The mention of the aide’s name provoked a slight tittering in the audience of politicians and business executives.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2020

His dramatic shift in tone was enough to turn the nervous tittering that F1 drivers always produce when put on the spot into actually taking a stand this week.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2020

When Richie was fourteen he’d grown from a tittering, cackling torturer of me to a handsome, slick high school kid who was an outstanding tenor sax player.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride