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chin

[chin] / tʃɪn /
NOUN
area under mouth
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Never one to take his mediocrity on the chin, Waititi deflected the negativity outward, which, as we know, always paints someone in a good light!

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

The acne on her cheeks and chin made her hesitant to look her bosses in the eye.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The mask extends from the hairline to underneath the chin.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

The biggest change is at the Amalfi’s front end, where a mesh grille separates the car’s nose from its scimitar-shaped chin spoiler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

But this apple wasn’t shiny green; it was wrinkled and almost as gray as the cloth that was tucked up under my chin.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

While Lord Wynstowe fusses around measuring chins and noses, Charlie and Alice are concerned with the grosser features of the human body.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

That might be giving too much credit to one player’s influence after nearly 50 years of clean chins, but come opening day, the smart money will be on Williams wearing a beard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

So how exactly did this fish - easily identifiable thanks to the black spots on their chins and cheeks - come to be in Thailand?

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024

Chinstrap penguins get their name from the thin black line under their chins, which looks like a strap holding on a black hat or helmet.

From NewsForKids.net ● Dec. 12, 2023

Lu and Ghost had their arms up but tucked their chins, almost as if they were sniffing their pits, when really they were just sneak-looking at me.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

"Taking interim fights, you can get chinned by anyone."

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

On a recent afternoon he chinned himself from a high bar and did an assortment of lifts with 30-pound weights on cables.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016

Double chinned faces are usually categorized under the round and wide face.

From Forbes ● Sep. 28, 2014

His last ride, he got chinned on the line.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

I sprang up, grabbed it, and then, in a fumbling and perhaps grotesque offering to Phineas, I chinned myself.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Outside is a chinning bar dating to Tolstoy’s day.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016

Four times a week he dons a pair of steel and foam-rubber Gravity Boots that each weigh three pounds and dangles from his heels from a chinning bar for five minutes.

From Time Magazine Archive

After chinning itself intellectually on King Lear, an audience is presumed to be so exhausted that it can only cope with the slack-jawed humors of Comedy of Errors.

From Time Magazine Archive

CBS Boss Bill Paley and his two new vice presidents, Edward R. Murrow and Davidson Taylor, conceived Operation Crossroads while chinning about their European wartime experiences.

From Time Magazine Archive

I remember chinning myself on the top of a fence to see one such comedy show filled with gallows humor.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson


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