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
All of this speaks well of Betts’ intuition and intelligence, but the postseason is not the time for “trust the process” blather.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
Since joining Cameo, he’s jacked up his rates from $75 a video to $500 for a few seconds of custom-ordered blather.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2023
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
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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
First, he sees through the pontification of the hall’s snooty administrator, who blathers on about the philanthropic purpose of wealth.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2016
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
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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
Pushing our chairs back, we both grabbed our bonnets, blathered something to Mrs. Drysdale about getting some fresh air, and skittered out the back door.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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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
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 thought of how Sam Donaldson or, God forbid, Helen Thomas, would have reacted to such blathering and I knew once again that the other problem in Washington is us — the press.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
“I was letting off steam and it was more online blathering than anything,” he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
She’s watching the TV, where a news anchor is blathering about the “flow crisis.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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