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cheep, chirp, chirrup, chitter, jargon, peep, pip, pipe, twitter
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Former foreign-service officers (FSOs) complain about a lack of direction and months of painstaking work being nullified by a presidential tweet. — The Economist, "The federal bureaucracies were already creaking," 7 Sep. 2019 The side deal has irked Trump, who has chastised Ford in tweets. — Washington Post, "Official: Trump to challenge California authority on mileage," 6 Sep. 2019 The rumor that Tarantino might release a miniseries version of his latest film actually dates back to early August and another tweet from Buchanan. — Clark Collis, EW.com, "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," 5 Sep. 2019 The side deal has irked Trump, who has chastised Ford in tweets. — Tom Krisher, Fortune, "Trump Will Challenge California’s State’s Rights to Set Its Own Mileage Standard," 5 Sep. 2019 Even the Press Association didn’t tweet about Meghan being in labor until 13 minutes after Mills. — K.j. Yossman, Marie Claire, "Inside the Cutthroat World of Royal Gossips," 5 Sep. 2019 So naturally, when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—more or less the research and development funding arm for the government—sent out these tweets, the good people of the Internet were rightfully suspicious. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, "The Government Needs Your Help Finding Sketchy Underground Tunnels ASAP," 30 Aug. 2019 One potential clue might lie in the tweets themselves, which displayed as having been sent from the Cloudhopper client. — Wired, "How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Account (Probably) Was Hacked," 30 Aug. 2019 The tweet that inspired the email from Stephens was a wisecrack Karpf made after seeing a report that the New York Times office had a bedbug problem. — Sarah Todd, Quartz at Work, "Is it ever okay to express your anger by emailing someone else’s boss?," 27 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Sleep tracking was the thing that would have sealed the deal, tweeted @remyperona. — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, "Sleeping on the job? New Apple Watch, but still no sleep tracking," 11 Sep. 2019 When Chuck Slothower of the the Daily Journal of Commerce tweeted Monday that the Sellwood Dairy Queen might be turning into a bank, a Debate broke out on Twitter about where the best DQ was in the area. — oregonlive, "What’s your favorite Portland area Dairy Queen? Vote now!," 10 Sep. 2019 One woman tweeted Monday morning that her flight from SFO to JFK in New York was delayed 11 hours. — Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, "Stuck at SFO overnight? Airlines won’t put you up and hotels are packed," 10 Sep. 2019 But when the furore over Mr Trump’s tweets subsides, the military realities for America remain unchanged. — The Economist, "Donald Trump pulls out of Afghan peace talks with the Taliban," 8 Sep. 2019 Sinitsa was arrested for tweeting what the court interpreted as a call to violence against children of law enforcement officials. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, "A Summer of Unprecedented Brutality in Moscow," 6 Sep. 2019 The Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed Mayor Joe Hogsett's re-election campaign, President Rick Snyder tweeted Thursday evening. — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, "Indianapolis Fraternal Order of Police endorses Mayor Joe Hogsett's re-election campaign," 6 Sep. 2019 Trackers on the Hunt USA 224, the spy satellite apparently responsible for the image President Trump tweeted, launched in January of 2011 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. — Eric Adams, Popular Mechanics, "Everything We Know About America's Secret KH-11 Recon Satellites," 6 Sep. 2019 The department tweeted Monday that staff and inmates at the Ridgeland Correctional Institution in the Jasper County evacuation zone will remain at the prison during the storm. — Washington Post, "The Latest: Dorian a flood, storm surge threat to US Coast," 5 Sep. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tweet.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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