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
We need to see through his free-speech blather.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2025
After all the idealistic blather on both sides, it boils down to TV money, and Florida State sold its soul to that devil long, long ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
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
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
When an audience member responds with a giggling fit or blathers on, the act meanders.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 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
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
Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2015
Early on in her 6 Music career, on weekday afternoons, Matthews was almost impossible to listen to: her mic technique was terrible, she ummed and aahed and dithered and blathered.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2013
I doubt it, but CNN blathered on in an effort to change my mind.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2010
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
Anyway, out went the trivia and in came Malkin and Frazier blathering about how excited they are for a second season of “Adolescence” that Netflix has yet to confirm.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026
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
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
“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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