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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

"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

Why not just ignore her and carry on with his usual blather about shower heads and windmills and tales of his former glory?

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024

That might be worthwhile, if it were not just blather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Rosy and Gosling were pugnaciously assertive: their future course of action would be unaffected by their fifty-mile excursion into adolescent blather.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

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

The Portuguese, meanwhile, hardly dare express hope in their striker, O Jogo merely announcing what is at stake by headlining "Bento banks on Postiga", while A Bola blathers about a titanic battle with Vikings.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2012

He mutes his speakerphone and cracks wise as a colleague blathers on.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2011

Heather paints her nails on her desk blotter and blathers.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Pressed on the Charlotte Edwardes claims, Matt Hancock blathered that he did have red lines that would force his cabinet resignation, but he wasn’t going to say them out loud.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2019

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

Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2015

I doubt it, but CNN blathered on in an effort to change my mind.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2010

Pushing our chairs back, we both grabbed our bonnets, blathered something to Mrs. Drysdale about getting some fresh air, and skittered out the back door.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

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

Then, when he’s wrong, which is often enough, we have to hear him blathering apologies and falling all over himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2020

She’s watching the TV, where a news anchor is blathering about the “flow crisis.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman