jabber
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Marine Le Pen said the press conference was "yet another interminable jabber".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
While Washington and Albies jabber at each other nonstop, the familial relationship is obvious.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
This accursed Olympiad has brought a lot—a lot—of jabber about diversity and inclusion and athlete safety and athlete centeredness.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021
If there were, the loudest mouth and wittiest jabber would have thought of it by now.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2020
I did not want to hear her jabber on about Autumn.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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The men’s antagonism deepens as Wake jabbers and Winslow rages, a fury that Pattinson makes visible with eyes that widen into bulges and tremors of emotion that ping under a masklike vacancy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2019
Lorena jabbers on about something, but I’m not really paying attention because she calls herself a restauraNteur, so she loses all credibility in my book.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2011
"Yeah, John Kirk, yeah!" writes, or shouts, or yells, or jabbers Piers Gee.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010
Now, in orchestrated and intermittent darkness, something less familiar is afoot as Firs, an old man in a nightshirt, with staring eyes, urges us to enter and jabbers at us in Russian.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010
"There's one of them jabbers double-Dutch, and the other talks Dutch-double—except the few English words he's picked up since he's been here; and the names of all the foods—he knows them right enough!"
From The Gap in the Fence by Watson Charlson
We jabbered about whether Bryant was better than Michael Jordan and the intense rivalry between the Sixers and the Lakers in the 1980s as we waited for Bryant’s face to flash again on the screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
It was a woman in a blue dress who stood in a stairwell above them, gazing upward in a warm beam of light as Rep. Matt Gaetz jabbered at her feet.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2019
The Oakland, Calif., native was one of the game's notorious trash-talkers, who jabbered away at opposing players, coaches and fans while constantly bobbing his head.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2013
Days later, against the Nets, Thompson was heard yelling “Cuz!” to try to get Cousins’s attention as he jabbered with a referee in the middle of a play, not an uncommon occurrence.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2012
“Mr. Rael?” a woman’s voice jabbered irately, “you ain’t gonna believe this, but guess what?”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Gone was all the jabbering and minutia that was presented, and only the important information was conveyed to the fan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
Eventually, I had to conclude — reluctantly — that it was indeed him, emoting from beneath pounds of ruddy latex and jabbering in an overblown accent traceable to somewhere in the vicinity of the Netherlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
When I finally did, I peeked through the apartment door and saw a half-dozen people happily jabbering away.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2021
Jon Macks of Haymarket, Va., shared a story from his daughter-in-law, whose young daughters were jabbering away in the back seat of her car, endlessly hashing over the same subject.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2021
A blue jay swooped in front of them and started Joe Joe jabbering.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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