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Adjective
My, you're looking chipper this morning.
She greeted me in a chipper voice.
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Stephen A. Pyne, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
The emoji appears — chipper then aggravating then weirdly insidious — in a livestream meeting of parents and executive board members at Eureka Day, an upscale private school in Berkeley, Calif.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
The super-chipper T.A. who serves as her driver and cheerleader (Rammel Chan) deposits Kate at a B&B whose snarling proprietor (Cindy Gold) seems to have chosen the wrong line of business.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2020
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Noun
Use fire itself, not as a flaming wood chipper, but as a transmuting presence to which much of the landscape may already be adapted, a process that can massage the biota, not just blast it away.
—Stephen A. Pyne, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
The emoji appears — chipper then aggravating then weirdly insidious — in a livestream meeting of parents and executive board members at Eureka Day, an upscale private school in Berkeley, Calif.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
Wasn’t the entire point of season two making both the audience and Ted realize all the ways in which his ultra-chipper attitude and impenetrable optimism were a mask for decades of repressed sadness?
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
The super-chipper T.A. who serves as her driver and cheerleader (Rammel Chan) deposits Kate at a B&B whose snarling proprietor (Cindy Gold) seems to have chosen the wrong line of business.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Aug. 2020
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“Chipper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chipper. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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