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blurt

[blurt] / blɜrt /


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Cole is a former cop who feels guilty about his father’s death, a backstory as lackluster as the exposition dumps that blurt it out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

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 want to blurt out that I don't want her man, but it would be a waste of my breath at this point.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Most of the script’s energy goes to talking about typesetting and rotary press flongs, but right before the end credits roll, “Le Faux Soir” blurts out its timeliness about combating Le Fox News with comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

He’s sort of like a chess player, unless he blurts something out.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

He goes redder still, then blurts out, “I want to ask her to marry me. But I...well...wanted to ask you first. So that’s what I’m doing—asking you. Would you be okay with that?”

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

An ABC vice president blurted that the network “is ‘with us,’ ” Colson continued, “they are very much afraid of us and trying hard to prove they are ‘good guys.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

“I’m going to nominate Courtney, too,” I blurted out, spilling everything right there on the gym yard.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

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

When Cory Cormier came strolling up across the lawn, it was all I could do to stop myself from blurting out “What are you doing here?”

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon




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