chin music

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Recent Examples of chin music But during his acceptance speech for the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, Jay-Z took the opportunity to throw some chin music at the Recording Academy. Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 5 Feb. 2024 And many of our plants leaned into that chin music to less than stellar results. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2023 It’s called chin music. Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2021 For all the chin music about SUV-like design, the profile hides the minivan quotient like a silk sheet conceals an elephant. Dan Neil, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021 That might result in some chin music, but Baez likely won't tone it down anytime soon. Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chin music
Noun
  • The chat was organized by Michael Waltz, whom Trump later removed as national security adviser.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025
  • The details were relayed in two chat groups that included Hegseth - one with Vice President JD Vance and other high-ranking officials, and a second one that included Hegseth's wife, who is not employed by the government.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • On December 7, after a 4-2 defeat at Brentford, Newcastle were 12th in the table and, externally, there was chatter about Eddie Howe’s position.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 29 May 2025
  • Suddenly, though, there is a confluence of intriguing points: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that, if the chatter is to be believed, will see resistance in the Senate but that resistance will be about some combination of spending cuts and tax increases.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Provide questions that go deeper than typical small talk.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • That should’ve been that, but my Midwestern manners got the best of me, and my first question to the two-time Emmy winner, one-time Tony winner, and all-time comic great became nothing more than polite, near-rhetorical, small talk.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • He’s started bypassing them, the City Hall reporters, in favor of talk podcasts, conservative outlets, and the remaining bits of the ethnic media that still exists in the city.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
  • But how will the U.S. withdrawal from the global climate talks affect the overall trend?
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Each monthly box includes three recipe guides, skill lessons, a kitchen tool, a kitchen project, an apron patch, table talk cards, and a grocery list.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Almost everything about Thanksgiving, from travel to table talk about politics, has the potential to become fraught.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024

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“Chin music.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chin%20music. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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