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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

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

He could come off as a know-it-all, and he tended to ramble when speaking.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025

With so much to see, I was content to ramble on, pausing to look at whatever took my interest, of which there was no scarcity.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

And the Rams had to deal with two of those soul-crushing rambles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

Hendrickson rambles for too long before redirecting to his client, asking Lynch about some sort of media venture he’s working on.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2024

“El viejo loco rambles on. I am tired, Esperanza. You are right. But I’ll rest soon. It’s been a good life. Raise him well, nieta.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

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

Johnson rambled in his video about his weight, the stakes of this would-be battle and the “real tension” he has with Rogan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025

Gaffigan as Walz played up his Midwestern dad-ness and Carvey's Biden rambled while repeatedly calling Thompson's Harvey the name of other game show hosts.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 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

Then she rambled across the street and peered back at me through her palm-sized director’s viewfinder.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

To create his rambling California oasis in the middle of a busy neighborhood, Brundo acquired house after house on the south side of his lot over the years so he could keep expanding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Saramago captures the rambling reversals of Senhor José’s thoughts with an unconventional prose style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

She was going to say a strange boy had broken into a room with a rare book and started rambling on about golden arrows.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova