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[blurt] / blɜrt /


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"If I see something on Instagram I'm not going to tell someone or blurt it out to the team because they don't want to see it. I think it's a personal preference."

From BBC Jun. 17, 2025

Asked how he felt at the end, a near-delirious Dudamel could barely blurt out “craaaazzzy.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2025

Any mind blurt or ridiculous thought that minnowed behind our eyeballs Midjourney absorbed and spat out.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2025

No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started “jailbreaking” the artificial intelligence chatbot — trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or obscene.

From Washington Times May 10, 2023

I don’t trust myself not to blurt something ridiculous.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

What goes down: He accidentally blurts out an inappropriate word that shocks his older co-workers, who don’t understand that the word is often used as a compliment among young people.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

When the little boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” blurts out that the emperor is naked, he says what people already knew.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

Later, after a crisis at work ends with the police being called and a pep talk from her therapist in Linda’s office, she blurts out a soft, “I love you” as he walks away.

From Salon Oct. 24, 2025

When the woman at the agency reveals that all mortgage-backed bonds get AAA ratings, she blurts out that if she doesn’t give the banks the ratings they want, they’ll take their business elsewhere.

From MarketWatch Oct. 11, 2025

“Thomas Jefferson helped the Marquis de Lafayette draft a declaration,” Simon blurts.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

In tears, she blurted: “How can you say that? Do you understand what’s going on? I would do anything to get cured.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

That this didn’t happen has sparked a back-and-forth about culpability, with Deadline reporting BAFTA’s assurance that it made the BBC and the broadcast’s producers aware that the slur was audible shortly after Davidson blurted it.

From Salon Mar. 1, 2026

Soon after, the star blurted out cooler gas measuring a temperature of 10,000 Kelvin moving super-slow at 70 kilometres per second.

From Space Scoop Nov. 19, 2025

But on the day of his college announcement, Easley blurted out that he was going to play for UCLA, his other finalist, during a ceremony at his high school auditorium.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2025

I hadn’t done the homework, and by the time he got to me, I still hadn’t thought of a question, so I blurted, “Why does Mr. Neely use so many hashtags?”

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Travolta gasped, kissing his trophy and blurting, “I was just happy to be here.”

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

When asked whether that makes him an anomaly in the Villages, he barely waits for the end of the question before resolutely blurting out his answer.

From BBC May 1, 2026

That might look like blurting things out or firing off a text that should be slept on.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

De Niro, who at times appeared grouchy, restrained himself from erupting at the dissection of his interactions with her before finally blurting out: “This is all nonsense!”

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2023

I described the director coming in, blurting out his announcement.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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