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jabber

[jab-er] / ˈdʒæb ər /


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Marine Le Pen said the press conference was "yet another interminable jabber".

From BBC Jan. 17, 2024

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

While Bartles — the rancher — would jabber away as the pair stared at the camera, Jaymes had it easy.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2015

In the lead was a girl I had talked to in Shageluk, who had advised me not to stand around at the checkpoints and jabber.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

He jabbers something, dodging the point, but appears complacent.

From Botchan (Master Darling) by Yasotaro Morri

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

He jabbered angrily with a woman in her 40s, who, like the younger man, gave no indication that she was willing to back down.

From New York Times Sep. 4, 2010

On the ride back to Colby, Jackie and Bertha jabbered away like they’d been best friends forever.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

After jabbering about it since 2023, Tyreek Hill and Noah Lyles announced they are going to race, but the speed freaks can’t say where and can’t say when.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

There will be more jabbering Thursday, each team jockeying for what might be another historic final say.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2023

When mom called back to them, “You girls are starting to sound like a broken record,” the jabbering was replaced by confused silence.

From Washington Post Aug. 1, 2021

The larger question is how much damage, direct and collateral, has been done to the sport since this jabbering over money went public, even if it ends with some semblance of a season.

From Seattle Times Jun. 18, 2020

We pour out into a throng of people from all over the country, and everybody is jabbering about how it’s their first time off the surface.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson




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