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[gab] / gæb /


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Anyone who has ever watched an interview with Mr. McConaughey, or delved into his enchanting memoir “Greenlights,” is aware that listening to him gab is a treat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Wearing a black-and-white ensemble that bares her midriff, she tucks her feet under her and treats our chat like a gab session.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026

"Laurent had the good-natured gab, Simone the uncompromising discourse," French newspaper Le Monde said of the Gbagbos' political partnership.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

“America’s Talking gab grabbing cable viewers,” USA Today, July 6, 1995.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2024

This is one of the messages that Wilfred Billey sent for General Smith: D-ah a-kha t-a-tah da-az-ja: Tses-nah tlo-chin ha-ih-des-ee ma-e na&shjaa gab ne-tah al-tah- je-jay.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac

Paul puts ‘bust’ in filibuster He doesn’t make it on the list of longest Senate gabs — but reading from Twitter instead of phone books might be a first.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2013

And in an era in which Lady Gaga gabs on about subverting gender and sexuality norms, these fellows strut the strut.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2012

Mark, a towering, perennially upbeat presence, relentlessly gabs away; Jay, short and bearded, lingers alongside.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2010

Scarlet gabs on a phone attached to the wall, Ruby reads a book, and Carmen admires herself in the sunlight that cascades through a window.

From Slate ● May 26, 2009

Mrs. Fischer gabs about our quest to save the coyote until Ms. Andrews cuts her off.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

He’s a guy who has actually governed, not just gabbed about it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2021

Just around the corner from the VA hospital where Cline worked, families huddled maskless and gabbed over heaps of pasta at the local Olive Garden.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2021

Some people gabbed, some groused; others stood silently, forming a line that snaked around the block, waiting for Century 21, the Lower Manhattan bargain hunters’ mecca, to open for business.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020

It was Feldman’s job to feed her, but they gabbed so much that Fridkin barely go to eat.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2017

He’d have gabbed about it all day except that Mayor Axelrod pulled him back to his duties as official photographer.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Every second of every day, there are stocks going up and down because nonprofessional traders are gabbing about them on Reddit and in Discord servers and group chats.

From Slate ● May 13, 2024

Interviewed today in what looks like his den, he sits for Bahrani’s questioning looking like a relatively harmless uncle who can’t stop gabbing about his war stories.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

Residents go to the post office on Fetters Mill Road near the old train tracks to snag their letters and packages while gabbing with friends and relatives they run into.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

Roughly 10 days later, after much gabbing, those who share a strong connection get engaged and meet for the first time before jetting off for a honeymoon-esque stay in Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

All the kids from out of state and their chaperones kept gabbing and giggling.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein




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