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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

"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

Workplaces provided easy ways to form friendships or at least gab by the water cooler—a particularly important resource in a country where 15 percent of Americans have one close friend, if any.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024

In his five days on the stand, Watson brought his trademark suaveness and gift of gab — and why not?

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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 ran across an interview transcript between Peter Hujar, a photographer Sachs had long admired, and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, in which the two gabbed in her Manhattan apartment in 1974.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

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

Later, backstage, she gabbed with Blair Michaels, another one of Town’s original drag queens, who had traveled from Buffalo and walked with a cane after recent hip surgery.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2018

I sat there grinning while Kevin and Susan gabbed and gossiped over their sandwiches.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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

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

“One of my favorite moments in every art fair is when all of the exhibitors start gabbing with each other,” Freeman said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

Little kids, old people, the men standing, rapping, gabbing on the corner.

From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes