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ramble

[ram-buhl] / ˈræm bəl /






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His answers began to ramble slightly as the interviews dragged on.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

His fusion of speaking and singing allows him to ramble as he embraces absurdity, non sequiturs and free association with a stand-up comic’s sense of timing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

Speaking to The Times of London, he said that radio pop in 2026 is one long ramble.

From Salon Mar. 29, 2026

Joe and Kimberly let him ramble, politely try to make sense of what he’s saying.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2024

How fine it might have been, to end a days ramble in the French countryside, walking into the setting sun.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

He rambles on: “We are even adding Battleships, which are 100 times more powerful than the ones that roamed the Seas during World War II.”

From Slate Feb. 6, 2026

"I like the humour of his mind. I like the fact that he that he rambles on but, more than that, he's given me the opportunity to learn so much."

From BBC Sep. 26, 2023

The Hollywood sign, like the city at its feet, rambles horizontally, across 400 feet of hillside, its letters at slightly irregular levels.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 16, 2023

Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Within the monument, we rambled along Soda Lake Road, admiring windmills, an old ranch house now reserved for bats, and a few hills dotted with lazy cows.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

The rest of the week went no better for Trump, who rambled and drifted during an event at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday.

From Salon Oct. 16, 2024

During the 10-minute phone interview, he ranted and rambled and seemed to be accidentally pressing various buttons on his phone, punctuating the broadcast with random beeping—that is, until he was ultimately cut off.

From Slate Aug. 27, 2024

Pragyaan rambled around the lunar surface for 10 days, while Prof Vadawale and his colleagues worked around the clock instructing it to collect data at 70 degree south latitude.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2024

I should have listened more closely to Mo when he'd rambled on about Mesopotamian mythology.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Though often rambling and incoherent, the letters have taken up the court’s time.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

Drake still has an impeccable ear for production and an incredible talent for hook-writing, much in the same way that Trump knows how to make rambling sentences sing via his unorthodox delivery.

From Salon May 21, 2026

My own high-school senior, hearing I was writing about looksmaxxing, started rambling on about a classmate who spent days ranking boys in their school as low-, mid- and high-tier normies based on their facial features.

From The Wall Street Journal May 4, 2026

Great on the financial details, but he needs improvement on his delivery—too many rambling answers—and on capital allocation messaging.

From Barron's May 3, 2026

The pace was slow and there were rambling houses with columned verandas.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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