blather
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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
But it's the truly demented and/or incoherent blather that's going unremarked upon and there is no excuse for it.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024
That might be worthwhile, if it were not just blather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
It's mostly a lot of blather about what we owe the Capitol.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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
First, he sees through the pontification of the hall’s snooty administrator, who blathers on about the philanthropic purpose of wealth.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2016
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
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
On television, they gave stumbling advice or blathered into obnoxious temper tantrums or flaunted their cosmic ineptitude at the flames of the charcoal grill.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2016
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
And don’t be surprised if I think you’re a blathering chucklehead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
“I was letting off steam and it was more online blathering than anything,” he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
His blathering on the subject was incoherent as always.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2021
This was just blathering with no particular expectation of a response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2020
“Some of us have work to do, and it doesn’t involve blathering about like bumpkins.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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