prattle
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Mr. Friedman’s book is full of technocorporate prattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I can’t think of many, but if you ask any “SNL” diehard — even just a regular viewer — about Michaels, they’ll likely prattle off some fun facts to you.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Sick, awesome, amazing, I continued to prattle on.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
She’d come to San Francisco so relieved to get away from it all—Mamma and Ritu auntie’s constant prattle about makeup and clothes and the I.I.H.—and now she was leaving with a serious boyfriend.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
I think often about his 2014 appearance on “WTF with Marc Maron” because you can hear Maron’s frustration at Mulaney’s composure build while he prattles charmingly on.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
Rachel, who narrates the novel, prattles on about her love life, her parents, and the cartoonishly loud suits of her journalist boss.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2020
“Oh no,” she prattles back, “like everybody thinks that but I just like have a really chronic condition and like a terribly fast mouth and like sometimes it can be annoying.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2014
As he spirals downward, he prattles on about the impossibility of fidelity in marriage, the power struggle between men and women — more echoes of Mamet, but without his misogyny.
From Time ● Nov. 5, 2013
At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
"With Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn't be won," he prattled on in a speech in Washington, D.C. last week.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023
Ever since a tiny Jonathan Lipnicki prattled on about the weight of the human head in “Jerry Maguire,” a parade of overzealous kid prodigies have appeared on-screen and quickly worn out their welcomes.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2018
In another segment, after seeing a dump truck on the streets of New York, he prattled on giddily, “Honk! Honk! goes the truck.”
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
She prattled on to her husband and dug around in her black matelassé purse.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
She ran on, through a tangled fringe of gossip, never seeing that these names were alien to him, they meant nothing, and that as she prattled unaware he grew colder and more silent.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
There’s a prattling aspect to Icke’s delaying tactics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
A rabbit in full formal attire, prattling on about his tardiness?
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
She watches “Peppa Pig,” which I, of course, hate — those British pigs with their phallic noses prattling on about nothing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
He made a habit of prattling at the top of his lungs through Sunday dinners at our house.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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