natter
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The other ladies who gather to knit and natter in her small English village thought the ears should be bigger.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
While politicians natter, markets move on as individuals and organizations chart their own courses.
From Fox News ● Oct. 1, 2020
So it would defeat the point if you take it off to have a natter, really.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2020
The leaves natter even if you can’t see them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016
Natter natter, you’re always on the tiny beach.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
Clocks should be seen to be stopped for goal celebrations, substitutions, natters before set-pieces, rolling around and whenever the ball goes out of play.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2016
As Erie natters on in an eager, fitful string of clichés, bringing to mind the sort of garrulous salesman you’d normally cross the street to avoid, Mr. Whitaker quietly breaks your heart.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016
Instead of plunging into psychobabble, Carr simply plys his lineup with Pink Lady and natters.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010
In a spray of wildly allusive wordplay, David Helfgott natters compulsively, cheerfully, to himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
A squirrel raiding our bird feeder natters at me in irritation before it hops away to try its luck at the bird feeder two houses over.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Its members have nattered on endlessly about their responsibility to safeguard the taxpayers’ money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
We chatted about bus times, we talked about the meal I was cooking, we just nattered.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023
Scheuer mused, “I have nattered on here longer than I intended.”
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2018
Doctorow listened graciously and politely as I nattered, but I could see he was ready to get going.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2015
She nattered on about the spectacle whilst assembling the tea things for Madam and Lady Seymour, who had come again to call.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
David Azerrad, a political science professor at conservative Hillsdale College, said that "for now, I think the president can continue to ignore the nattering nabobs".
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
“One day I was driving around with a close friend of Rob’s nattering about this exact question,” Hobbs recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
When either candidate is struggling they will be inclined to start nattering with each other about some cockamamie point or even the rules and the questions as a way to get a breath.
From Fox News ● Sep. 29, 2020
Hot gas suffuses the cluster, but the storm blew a crater through it more than a million light-years wide, leaving just a near-vacuum, a nattering haze of ultrahot electrical particles.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
It is because of her nattering on at me while I was hard at work that she has fallen behind.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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