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gab

[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

“So, you two going to gab all day or order?”

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

I regrouped with my friends outside, mentally preoccupied as they gabbed about more interesting matters.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2023

The two strangers gabbed on and on as FitzGerald turned off the highway and looped through side streets.

From Salon Jan. 9, 2022

“I thought she was stunning, unpretentious and real. She asked about Bella and didn’t talk about herself. We gabbed until 3 a.m.”

From New York Times Nov. 12, 2021

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

Sure, sometimes coworkers can feel like friends, but that doesn’t mean you can spend an hour gabbing about last night’s date.

From Salon Jan. 6, 2025

Each Friday through the election, the Surge will join host Mary Harris on Slate’s What Next podcast for 15 minutes of gabbing about the most important political nonsense of the week.

From Slate Sep. 21, 2024

And the last scene of “Maisel” jumps ahead several decades and we see the two women as seniors still gabbing, but now via phone as they are no longer living in the same city.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2023

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

“More like Twitter Man. I never heard so much gabbing in my life. The way he promised stuff and then figured out how to take it away—what a sneak.”

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett




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