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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 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

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

They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

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

The lieu-tenant blathered on about major versus minor offenses, the need to make judgments, and so on, apparently expecting me to say, “Oh, I get it!” and withdraw from his office.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Liz declared herself my “public relations” manager for my chicken coops, and then started blathering on about the “urban chicken market” and the need for the coops to have a cool paint job.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz