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
How do you think she feels watching RFK Jr. blather on about vaccines?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
We need to see through his free-speech blather.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2025
They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
Lucas may have blathered about quests and initiatic trials, but he knew that Star Wars was actually an excuse for boys to exercise their motorised toys.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2015
Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2015
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
“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
Despite his riding-in-silence comment, Coach was blathering on, probably telling me a story, but I wasn't really listening.
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
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