blather

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 of this speaks well of Betts’ intuition and intelligence, but the postseason is not the time for “trust the process” blather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

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

In the role of amped-up chrome-domed villain Dr. Robotnik, he blusters, he blathers, he snarks, he sneers and, above all, he shouts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

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

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

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

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

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

Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2015

The Holmesdale captain, Mark Epps, rejected a request to delay the start – "This isn't friendly schoolboy cricket," he blathered, hugging his Little Book of Mental Disintegration.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2011

He caught himself before he blathered on anymore.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

No, he wanted to read about it on Twitter, one factual post taking a blow torch to all the blathering opinions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023

I thought of how Sam Donaldson or, God forbid, Helen Thomas, would have reacted to such blathering and I knew once again that the other problem in Washington is us — the press.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

“College. I wouldn’t have imagined—” “If they dismiss me, I’d have to stop stalling and blathering and get myself to Oberlin College and a new life.”

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson