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ramble

[ram-buhl] / ˈræm bəl /






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In plain language, that means he’s probably going to ramble late into the night about a bunch of baseless conspiracy theories.

From Slate Jul. 16, 2026

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

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

We had planned to visit one of the city’s renowned art museums, but instead opted for a ramble through the Dorsoduro district.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

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

From Salon Mar. 29, 2026

They had slipped into a steady routine during the day; the two dogs trotting along side by side, unconcerned and purposeful, might have seemed two family pets out for a neighborhood ramble.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

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 story takes a while to get going, then rambles a lot once the premise has been established.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2023

There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Asked about defending Taiwan, she rambled about making sure “we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

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

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

Typically, his walks had no destination: To him they were akin to meditation—a chance to think without thinking—and he rambled about even during the bitterly cold winters.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

But a New York judge flatly rejected the appeal, describing it as "lengthy and rambling".

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

This first half is plotless and rambling, with a crime mystery yielding digressions within digressions within digressions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

“Every time we talked about the prospect of peace, the stock market shot up like a rocket ship,” he said during a long and at times rambling address.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

The California Military Academy spent a spectacular few of its early years, circa 1906, on the water at Santa Monica, leasing out the rambling Victorian pile that had once been the Arcadia Hotel.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

He was about to go on a rambling and error-filled escape journey.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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