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- verb Present participle of
chivvy .
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Examples
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I had a major insight about the challenge of keeping our school-day mornings moving along: I was focused on chivvying my children along.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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I had a major insight about the challenge of keeping our school-day mornings moving along: I was focused on chivvying my children along.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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I had a major insight about the challenge of keeping our school-day mornings moving along: I was focused on chivvying my children along.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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In chivvying up the performance culture, Polman has already changed some 30-40 leaders among the top 100 leaders.
Unilever's 2010 In India Indrajit Gupta 2011
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But this is also a documentary about Pathé's tone, about its part, for example, in chivvying along the population during 1940s make-do-and-mend years when the government information film reigned supreme.
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He would never admit it, but he will surely be privately pleased that the government is chivvying along the process of finally taking the FA's governance arrangements into the 21st century.
D-day for English football: time to unveil your blueprint for change | Owen Gibson 2011
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I had a major insight about the challenge of keeping our school-day mornings moving along: I was focused on chivvying my children along.
Gretchen Rubin: 7 Tips for Keeping School Day Mornings Calm and Cheery Gretchen Rubin 2010
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In chivvying up the performance culture, Polman has already changed some 30-40 leaders among the top 100 leaders.
A Person of the Year: Paul Polman Indrajit Gupta 2011
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Ministers have been chivvying, threatening and begging banks to lend to businesses since the winter of 2008, while at the same time withdrawing vast sums from demand.
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And he glanced past me to where Susie was chivvying the tarts out of sight into the wagons.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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