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chuckle

[chuhk-uhl] / ˈtʃʌk əl /


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“Oh, that’s cold isn’t it,” Ms. Ayres-Wilson says, with a chuckle.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Trump then said, before adding with a chuckle: "I think you could."

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Abdul-Mateen says, his chuckle filling a small room in one of the streamer’s Hollywood offices.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

"I probably would have shut up in the press far earlier," he says with a chuckle.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

I was too tired now to even chuckle at Mrs. Lee’s shirt—navy blue with a bunch of otters wearing space helmets, floating in a star-filled sky with the words “Otter Space” underneath.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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