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
Kim Kardashian paid tribute to Campbell on social media, describing her as her as "my best friend, my gossip buddy, my forever twin".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Casey still hangs out in her parents’ room occasionally to talk about movies with her dad or to gossip with her mom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Wilde’s follow-up, the 2022 psychodrama “Don’t Worry Darling,” became mired in behind-the-scenes gossip and tabloid speculation that overshadowed what was intended as a stylized portrait of female rage and discontent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Most people can neither intimately know, nor gossip effectively about, more than 150 human beings.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The chapters fly at the reader in column-length bursts, and the perspective bops about from that of our heroine to neighborhood gossips, savvy editors and that unforgettable mother-in-law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 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
She shops at Zabar’s, does Pilates on Columbus Avenue and resides comfortably in a prewar high rise between West End and Riverside, where she gossips about private lives as though they were front-page news.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
The twins squatted on their haunches, like professional adult gossips in the Ayemenem market.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
While the other girls gossiped and said good night one by one, Cora practiced her letters.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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In company with Lyon she walked up and down the deck, looking so joyous that the men about the place could but remark upon it as they gossipped with each other.
From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
"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
First of all, your love affair is being gossipped about; secondly, this gossip has indirectly brought your lover into serious danger.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
And Jessie, being new to the fashionable world, shrank from having her heart-history gossipped about.
From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion
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 Watson, Sidney
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 have to say that finding you two ladies gossiping in the garden when I got home was not what I expected.”
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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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
A kiss, at a dance, was all they could say in their gossipping, but he had kissed Annette, and she was by no means the flower of his heart.
From The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. by Fuller, Fanny
A crowd had evidently collected round the door, for I heard the muffled sound of voices gossipping, but could not distinguish what they said.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander
But I'm wasting my time and catching my death, gossipping with you!
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
I’m not their maid, and she had no business to stand here gossipping about Miss Nevins.
From The Girls at Mount Morris by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
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