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
Why not just ignore her and carry on with his usual blather about shower heads and windmills and tales of his former glory?
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024
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
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
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
I doubt it, but CNN blathered on in an effort to change my mind.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2010
The lieu-tenant blathered on about major versus minor offenses, the need to make judgments, and so on, apparently expecting me to say, “Oh, I get it!” and withdraw from his office.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
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
We gave ye a warning to stop the blathering but ye wouldn’t.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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