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
That might be worthwhile, if it were not just blather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Since my time was wasted listening to two of the most hated people in America blather at each other, allow me to help you preserve yours.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023
It's mostly a lot of blather about what we owe the Capitol.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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
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
"I can't tell you how excited I am about joining the tAlkSpOrT team," blathered Gray.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2011
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
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
This was just blathering with no particular expectation of a response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2020
She’s watching the TV, where a news anchor is blathering about the “flow crisis.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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