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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
But, more often, he presented it as "a chapter of accidents" and "a diverting and enjoyable ramble through life".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
But ultimately, ABC’s decision to let Trump ramble at times felt judicious.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2024
I proceeded to ramble on as we walked, raving about all of my favorite Halcydonia titles and geeking out on Og in a classically embarrassing fashion.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Usually when a person rambles, myself included, it’s because they don’t feel comfortable with the person to whom they are talking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
He then played a clip in which Trump rambles about his White House ballroom in response to a reporter’s question about how he was handling Kirk’s death.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
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
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
For once, nobody rambled, nobody went off script, and almost everyone remembered to thank their mum.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
As they waited for her husband to return, the masked man rambled about himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
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
Its tiny white flowers rambled like snow over the opening.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
During the war, he baffled international negotiators with rambling diatribes on Serbian history.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
But a New York judge flatly rejected the appeal, describing it as "lengthy and rambling".
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“It was not possible for me to imagine a solution to the level of fragmentation, pain, and dysfunction I saw,” she writes, leaving readers without much justification for having followed her rambling, idiosyncratic quest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
After Debbie divorced, she sent a rambling letter to Nancy, saying how guilty she felt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
The reporter got what he hoped for—a rambling, scandalous interview.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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