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

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024

Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2023

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

The littluns began to jabber among themselves, then one stood forward.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

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

Questions were asked: Where'd the Colonel light on the cratur, and how'd he persuaded the Protestant rogues—ah, be jabbers, begging his honour's pardon entirely!—how'd he persuaded the rogues to give her up?

From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John

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

The sailor holding the whip nodded, pointed to her, and jabbered some words as he hopped up and down.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

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

When it’s time to stop jabbering and start jabbing, he believes there will be a big difference against a fighter who’s had only about half as many professional fights.

From Seattle Times ● May 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

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

Ji-yun was still jabbering excitedly, but Grandma was stern.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang