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[blurt] / blɜrt /


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They stopped calling on Najya in class, making her “so frustrated that, waving her hand furiously, she began to blurt out the answers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

"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

The humor comes off like a wallflower at a party who is racing with so many awkward thoughts that when it’s finally time to speak, they blurt out something rude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

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

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

Of course, nobody could get Speak-Up-Sayeh to raise her hand or to blurt anything out loud.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

She hesitates, then blurts out the news, barely holding back laughter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

One more brief, explosive interlude later, Ilya blurts out Shane’s name, and for the first time in all the years they’ve circled each other.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2025

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

“I want to be in a normal place!” she blurts out in one of their last conversations, almost as if she were a musical protagonist about to break into song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

Layla points to Carrie and blurts out, “I like you!”

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

Finally, Madden blurted out that he could find a random kid walking around the USC campus in sandals who could have more of an influence than that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 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

“Why does it smell like pancakes in here?” a shopper blurted out from an adjoining changing room at Zara.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

At any rate, he’d just blurted that last bit out before he fully understood what they were after.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

"She was just crying down the phone, blurting it out in such terror and torment," Ms Will told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

Baker hugged Lucas and thanked the jury before blurting out, “I really don’t know what’s happening now.”

From New York Times ● May 25, 2024

“It is almost fun sometimes to just go to that lazy part of your brain where you’re just blurting out whatever stupid thought comes out,” says Mike Judge, who created the duo and voices them.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2023

In a sudden rush, I felt myself blurting out, “I have all As.”

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz




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