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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

A talking head spewing out well scripted "jibber jabber" to appease the masses.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2016

I did not want to hear her jabber on about Autumn.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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 constantly, but nothing he says makes sense.”

From The Vanishing Houseboat by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

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

A year back, organizational swamis jabbered about Dominic Smith, the first baseman of the future.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2018

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

When I got there, Gus was sitting at the kitchen table while Bertha sliced green peppers from the garden and jabbered about that fancy new drugstore they were building out on Route 26.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

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

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

Meanwhile, she warps the expectations of verse-chorus-verse forms, talk-singing or chanting as long as she wishes, sometimes letting choruses of overdubbed Fionas — dulcet ones, jabbering ones — completely hijack her tunes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2020

As wizards and witches attempted to consult the papers before them, sundry pixies and fairies whirled around their heads, giggling and jabbering.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling


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