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
But the administration’s blather about a focus on violent offenders led to huge demonstrations in greater Los Angeles beginning in June, and the cause continues to draw people into the streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 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
For one thing, we couldn’t understand a word they were saying, since it was all private jokes and wealthy early-adopter sub-vuvv prep-school-blazer blather.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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
Often blathered about on the London soul scene is Mr Fine Wine from New Jersey radio station WFMU.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2010
He caught himself before he blathered on anymore.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
And don’t be surprised if I think you’re a blathering chucklehead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
And indeed, no matter the blathering on ESPN, no one within USC is under the impression Riley enters USC’s first year in the Big Ten in danger or under pressure from within.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
“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
“Hell, I go looking for you in Imre all the time, but I don’t actually expect to find you ” I trailed off, realizing that I was blathering.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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