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gossip

[gos-uhp] / ˈgɒs əp /




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Her popular podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me is full of gossip, oversharing and comic bickering - music to the ears of the Traitors producers, no doubt.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

You may think the floor-to-ceiling speakers drown out your work gossip, but even at the loudest shows talking can be disruptive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The pseudonym Perez Hilton is a reference to Paris Hilton who was at the height of her fame when the celebrity gossip blog was launched in 2005.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

During our visit, Cletus didn’t pull out his old suitcase, didn’t entertain us with his usual stories of exaggeration and gossip.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

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

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

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

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

Its bar was popular with politicians, security officers and civil servants who gossiped as they sipped their beer after work.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024

She sighed, wistful, and rested her chin in her hand, gazing down to where people lived and danced and loved and gossiped and didn’t ever eat kimril if they didn’t want to.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

On the way they gossipped, and the maid expressed a belief that Mr. Lane was a fine young gentleman, but full of his goings-on.

From The Folly Of Eustace 1896 by Robert Smythe Hichens

Her father, I suppose, wished to avoid the chance of her marriage being gossipped about.

From A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel by Mrs. Harry Coghill

Paige and Marye did embroidery and gossipped together under the big crystal chandelier while their mother read aloud to them from "Great Expectations," which was running serially in Harper's Weekly.

From Ailsa Paige by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

“It’s like, ‘We don’t want to hear from you when we’re gossiping about you,’” said social media consultant Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

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

After being rejected, Venessa, also then in her mid-twenties, sent Jay a series of "angry and accusatory" messages, saying he was gossiping about her.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

Also, he was quiet and decent, so unlikely to go round gossiping afterwards if it was a complete disaster.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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

The evenings of the Sabbath are passed in little gossipping circles in some of the cabins, or beneath the shade of some tree in front of their dwellings, or at weddings.

From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham

Jim had no intimates, and had he chosen such, Mr. Holtz, gossipping, idle, stingy, and shallow of brain, would scarcely have been the man.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch

I wonder at their present patience and perseverance, and can never sufficiently admire the contexture of that brain which can weave with unwearied toil such immense webs of idle tittle-tattle, and gossipping nonsense.

From Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754) by Anonymous




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