butted in
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Gao quickly butted in: Fighting, he said, “is very normal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
A boy near me butted in: "Wow, you don't get this?"
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024
As he explained that his ministry had launched a programme to produce helicopter engines in St Petersburg that were previously made in Ukraine, the president butted in, complaining it was all taking too long.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2023
As Tolisso was doing a halftime television interview, Jourdren butted in.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 2016
I know it ain’t right, but I butted in on Ma afore she had a chance to get any words out ’bout me being a fra-gile boy.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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