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was chiming
  • past progressive of chime.

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“The Instigators” was a largely free and creative environment, where everyone was chiming in on the script, including Damon and Ben, and working to make things better.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

Ahead of opening its first restaurant in the city, the fast food giant teamed up with an audio engineer to give the illusion that Big Ben was chiming again.

From Fox News • Nov. 20, 2018

“Everyone was chiming in for good measure. Basically they were building something to survive a nuclear war. Literally. ”

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2014

London and Paris had already acclaimed the Cleveland�and New York was chiming in.

From Time Magazine Archive

The air was so cold, it was chiming like a struck tuning fork.

From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt

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