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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

That might be worthwhile, if it were not just blather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

Rosy and Gosling were pugnaciously assertive: their future course of action would be unaffected by their fifty-mile excursion into adolescent blather.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

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

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

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

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

“It was a mess. That blathering sailor pushed her to the front of the line. It drew more attention.”

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys