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blather

[blath-er] / ˈblæð ər /
NOUN
foolish talk
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST


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In fact, I expected the outcome since about day seven, including China’s role in bringing about a settlement, though minus any blather on my part about a victory for the mullahs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

How do you think she feels watching RFK Jr. blather on about vaccines?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

"All this blather about Mr Adams being a member of the army council is not something you have to decide," he told the jury.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

They may be cutting back on how much he can blather on-air, but in the end, that's mainly to his benefit.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023

Nobody asked you to talk, said Philomena.You done enough damage with your blather, so shut your yap.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

If she wants to call witnesses to rebut specific lies he blathers, she can.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

“One of the things that almost every longtime survivor I know has commented on is how eerie it is to see them up there smiling and nodding while this fool blathers on,” he says.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2020

Actually, these methods came from medicine .. which, contrary to most WashDC blathers, is as much soft-science as hard-science.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018

He blathers on about Picasso as a rogue sociopath, a narcissist out to make someone suffer, maybe his mom or his dad or himself or the whole world.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2012

Heather paints her nails on her desk blotter and blathers.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

He blathered incoherently about the New York Times' award-winning 1619 Project, which explores the origins of American democracy and its irrevocable connections to white-on-Black chattel slavery.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2020

For now, though, Koepka is ascendant, and for all the reasons I've blathered on about for the last four hours, what he's accomplished in the past two years is more than just remarkable—it's singular.

From Golf Digest ● May 19, 2019

Lucas may have blathered about quests and initiatic trials, but he knew that Star Wars was actually an excuse for boys to exercise their motorised toys.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2015

Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2015

There was one Canadian member of my clique, who always blathered on and on about how her parents had taken the appropriate legal channels to move to the United States.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

I called A&W Restaurants’ headquarters in Lexington, Ky. I reached the chairman, Kevin Bazner, 71, and started blathering on about Camp Golden Eagle and the stand on Highway 51.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

And indeed, no matter the blathering on ESPN, no one within USC is under the impression Riley enters USC’s first year in the Big Ten in danger or under pressure from within.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

So it just seems like some blathering by a professor, and that is frustrating.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024

“I was letting off steam and it was more online blathering than anything,” he said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

“Hell, I go looking for you in Imre all the time, but I don’t actually expect to find you ” I trailed off, realizing that I was blathering.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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