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champed

verb

past tense of champ

as in chewed

to crush or grind with the teeth kept champing a cigar as he barked out orders

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to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure watch the horses so they don't champ the flower beds

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Avoid giving younger children hard candies such as Jolly Ranchers or other kinds that can’t be chewed easily.

— Lina Ruiz October 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
Beside a fallen tree, McCormack points out how a beaver chewed more deeply into one side of the trunk, bringing it down into the water.

— CBS News, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026

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McColley pushed Parente out onto the street and stomped his boot in the victim’s face five times, crushing Parente’s head into the pavement before fleecing his pockets and fleeing, according to the criminal complaint.

— Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026
Letter writers recalled how Paden saved his father’s life when a cow nearly stomped him to death in a field, after the elder Paden came between the cow and her calf.

— Glenn Rice, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2026

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Instead, his team developed SynthID, an imperceptible, incorruptible digital watermark now stamped to anything generated by Google AI, but also OpenAI, Nvidia, Kakao, and, soon, Apple.

— Daniel Varghese, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
The rest of the Soviet delegation stamped their feet, and even Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko removed and timidly tapped his shoe in solidarity.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026

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