gossip
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But there is little in the public record to document this, other than items in the gossip pages about their golf bouts.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Hiddleston notes that “one great gift of Pompeii is that the Romans didn’t have paper, so the walls, the columns, the houses, the public buildings are covered in writing: deeds, business contracts, advertisements, gossip, doodles.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Swifties and their ideological opposites have both been Monday-morning quarterbacking last weekend’s shindig, accepting even the weirdest bad-faith gossip without question.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
It is your one-stop shop for the latest news, insight, expert analysis, fan views, stats and gossip.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
If you asked the butcher himself, he’d say, “Don’t worry about that,” because he was the kind of person who hated gossip and just wanted to work.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
Capitol Hill gossips, including journalists from whom one might have hoped to hear something before now, evidently knew about Mr. Swalwell’s behavior for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
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
In the kitchen, Rudolf’s wife, Hedwig, sits and gossips with friends.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Seamen were the worst gossips in the world when the wine was flowing, even wine as cheap as this.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
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His characters are the friends and acquaintances of everybody,—quoted, referred to, gossipped about, discussed, criticized, as though they were actual beings.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various
I run on like this, because you say you like to be gossipped to; and I am just a little lonely here—sometimes.
From Elizabeth's Campaign by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The old Frenchwoman gossipped and wondered about her; but the most speculative could fashion no story from a page so blank as this joyless existence.
From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
"The substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular industry, gossipped by the present precious secretary of war, in Payne the bookseller's shop."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
That as a rule, he gossipped and shared his tobacco with sailors and fishermen, and brought out the sock much oftener than was prudent for the benefit of the ragged boys who haunt the quay.
From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various
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
It was lunchtime, and this Chili’s in suburban Dallas was hopping: office friends gossiping, parents eating chips and salsa, their kids gaming on Chili’s-branded Ziosk tablets.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025
Something that I think is pretty interesting, too, is the gossiping part of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
A few beats later, she slides in gossiping about Laurie’s menace of a kid and gnarly divorce.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025
I twist around, seeing the gossiping crowd, the swarm of cars, hearing, “Black brother, black brother...Black brother, black brother.”
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
Though our family was a veritable lunatic asylum of poets, no one cared to translate the good creature's gossipping garrulity into verse.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
These rumors were started by the Dubarry servants, in their gossipping with other family servants in the chance meeting in church or village.
From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
"It means that some accident or other has given malignant fools a chance of gossipping about her," said Sir Tancred in an unamiable tone.
From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Jepson, Edgar
One word more: In a place like this, where there is so much gossipping, I can't allow you to bear alone the responsibility of this action.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
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