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
But it's the truly demented and/or incoherent blather that's going unremarked upon and there is no excuse for it.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2024
They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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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
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
He mutes his speakerphone and cracks wise as a colleague blathers on.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2011
Heather paints her nails on her desk blotter and blathers.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
Pressed on the Charlotte Edwardes claims, Matt Hancock blathered that he did have red lines that would force his cabinet resignation, but he wasn’t going to say them out loud.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2019
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
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
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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
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
No, he wanted to read about it on Twitter, one factual post taking a blow torch to all the blathering opinions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
“I was letting off steam and it was more online blathering than anything,” he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
Just to stop me blathering on like that?
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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