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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
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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
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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
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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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