gossip

It’s protecting against bad behavior, and when we throw the baby of insight out with the bathwater of gossip, we are leaving a lot of information on the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Aspen is a place where gossip travels as fast as Moncler-clad skiers on steep runs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

People with well-recognised Cuban-American surnames – like Bacardi and Babun – chat around the pool about the lamentable state of the island's economy, and share titbits of gossip about the latest political rumblings.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

But under the constant watch of phone cameras and gossip that travels at the speed of social media feeds, they face greater pressures.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

Shortly thereafter, the gossip network inside the government had picked up the scent.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Then gossips chattered that a huge “bear raid,” or manipulation of stocks by short sellers, would be launched the following morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

Williams has long understood why people love gossip and equally adore and abhor gossips: they cause controversy, and sometimes force a public, corrective response.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

“That’s where all the best gossips in town have gathered.”

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

During his childhood, Almodóvar sometimes sat and listened under the kitchen table while his mother and other women gossiped and shared secrets, Moore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

We gossiped as we cooked small eggs and sweet potatoes on top of the houlu just to enjoy their smell.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

And what is more to the purpose, it spared him the pain and mortification of knowing that he was gossipped about.

From The Right to Privacy by Louis D. Brandeis

The hum of several thousand voices, as the gathered people gossipped about the image, made quite a volume of sound.

From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

She sank lower than ever; she missed going to her work oftener, gossipped for whole days, and became as soft as a rag whenever she had any work to do.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

"Worship makes worshipped, worshipper, worshipping; gossip, gossipped, gossipper, gossipping; fillip, fillipped, fillipper, fillipping."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

It was gossipped that he was expected to write Turner's biography—"five years' work for you," says the old man, full of plans for gathering material.

From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

There is no reality in which gossiping about someone’s weight loss, especially on social media, is a way toward helping or healing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I felt like he was gossiping about me to a lot of people, and during one review, it became clear that he was.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

“You hear people gossiping in the locker room, or you hear about cool art shows that are happening or dance parties,” says Hansen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

"Avoid gossiping and talking about your friend or about their partner to others who could whip up hysteria," Shaheen-Zaffar tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

Men stand outside, gossiping and sipping hot drinks.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Robinson and Frances Glandney, who married in 2002, were part of a group of longtime pals and she knew they’d start gossipping about her and the legendary singer-songwriter.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

But I'm wasting my time and catching my death, gossipping with you!

From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman

I love this sort of gossipping during breakfast, of all things.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

His friendships are a kind of gossipping friendships, and those commonly within the circle of his trade, wherein he is careful principally to avoid two things, that is poor men and suretiships.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

His acquaintances, laughing and gossipping round the half-empty wine-glasses, the olives, the scattered fruit, and "the ashes of the weeds of their delight," gave themselves no concern about the weary host.

From The Mark Of Cain by Andrew Lang