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blurt

[blurt] / blɜrt /


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They stopped calling on Najya in class, making her “so frustrated that, waving her hand furiously, she began to blurt out the answers.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sometimes Marten and Gordon would abruptly blurt things out from the dock when they took issue with the evidence.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025

Any mind blurt or ridiculous thought that minnowed behind our eyeballs Midjourney absorbed and spat out.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

It's the reason Kelly can blurt, "People are saying" without pointing to a poll or naming names.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023

Sometimes it just seemed easier to blurt out what Mom calls my pie chart: half Mexican, half fill-in-the-blank with the names of a bunch of different European countries.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

Every character blurts out exactly what they want with the gusto of belting out ba-ba-baaaah at a certain Neil Diamond chorus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

When the little boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” blurts out that the emperor is naked, he says what people already knew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

He’s sort of like a chess player, unless he blurts something out.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

“I want to be in a normal place!” she blurts out in one of their last conversations, almost as if she were a musical protagonist about to break into song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

And then it forms this sentence, which blurts out of my mouth about three times too loudly and right into Kristina’s face.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

Winkleman told the press launch she thought Grant blurted out his identity in error, because he was so thrilled to be a traitor.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

After seeing it, she says, she ran into Chin and blurted out, “I’m so glad you’re alive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

That this didn’t happen has sparked a back-and-forth about culpability, with Deadline reporting BAFTA’s assurance that it made the BBC and the broadcast’s producers aware that the slur was audible shortly after Davidson blurted it.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

Instead of choosing something sanitized, I blurted out my actual most embarrassing moment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

Finally, she blurted out, “I never said sorry. You know, for...for...everything.”

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

That might look like blurting things out or firing off a text that should be slept on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

"She was just crying down the phone, blurting it out in such terror and torment," Ms Will told the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

Baker hugged Lucas and thanked the jury before blurting out, “I really don’t know what’s happening now.”

From New York Times ● May 25, 2024

De Niro, who at times appeared grouchy, restrained himself from erupting at the dissection of his interactions with her before finally blurting out: “This is all nonsense!”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

She was still a child, Robbie thought, not beyond confessing or blurting out that she had read his note, which in turn could lead her to describe what she had interrupted.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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