prattle
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Mr. Friedman’s book is full of technocorporate prattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I can’t think of many, but if you ask any “SNL” diehard — even just a regular viewer — about Michaels, they’ll likely prattle off some fun facts to you.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Influencers and phonies and maybe even the occasional real journalist prattle on in the backgrounds of scenes telling people what to think and do, often making things worse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Sick, awesome, amazing, I continued to prattle on.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
Who can look into the wet-mouthed smiles of children and see a meadhall burning, or listen past their musical prattle to the midnight roar of fire ?
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
I think often about his 2014 appearance on “WTF with Marc Maron” because you can hear Maron’s frustration at Mulaney’s composure build while he prattles charmingly on.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
Rachel, who narrates the novel, prattles on about her love life, her parents, and the cartoonishly loud suits of her journalist boss.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2020
Like Judge Moore, he prattles about the Constitution; like Judge Moore, he hasn't read it and couldn't understand it if he should read it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
As he spirals downward, he prattles on about the impossibility of fidelity in marriage, the power struggle between men and women — more echoes of Mamet, but without his misogyny.
From Time ● Nov. 5, 2013
At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
"With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won," he prattled on in a speech in Washington, D.C. last week.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023
My mother cooked and prattled, my grandfather was severe but kindly, the farm prospered.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2017
In another segment, after seeing a dump truck on the streets of New York, he prattled on giddily, “Honk! Honk! goes the truck.”
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
In the trial that ensued, prosecutors argued that Valle really meant to do at least some of what he’d prattled on about in late-night binges at the keyboard.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2015
Yossarian kept nodding in the co-pilot’s seat and tried not to listen as Milo prattled on.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
There’s a prattling aspect to Icke’s delaying tactics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
A rabbit in full formal attire, prattling on about his tardiness?
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
But I am glad I got to hear this king — and queens and dukes — pronouncing and prattling in my ear, regaling me in the comfort of my home.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
The two hosts were gone, their prattling with them.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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