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
Sick, awesome, amazing, I continued to prattle on.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
I find a similar kind of nonsensical prattle in various corners of our Blue Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
And then he heard something — something quite apart from the spitting of the dying candles and Lockhart’s prattle about his fans.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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
She prattled on to her husband and dug around in her black matelassé purse.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
Had he known what attracted her to him initially, what propelled her to listen so patiently as he prattled on about his experiments and his home laboratory, he would have been mortified.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2016
But reading the boredom on Rada’s face, and desperate to impress a superior, he pulled out his tablet and instead prattled on about his secret discovery, demonstrating the loophole right there on his screen.
From Slate
Yossarian kept nodding in the co-pilot’s seat and tried not to listen as Milo prattled on.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
He’s been prattling on about Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” and sharing Facebook nonsense about centurions ever since.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
She watches “Peppa Pig,” which I, of course, hate — those British pigs with their phallic noses prattling on about nothing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
A natural modesty prevents him from prattling on about himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
The two hosts were gone, their prattling with them.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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