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
Smith almost butted in to share her own disapproval of parents who expose their children to “damaging, mind-altering technology,” when one of the women remarked, “Imagine giving something worth nine hundred dollars to a baby.”
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020
How would I feel if a bunch of other heroes had butted in and made me look bad?
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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