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
Sick, awesome, amazing, I continued to prattle on.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
I find a similar kind of nonsensical prattle in various corners of our Blue Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
People in general prattle ceaselessly about ironies here and ironies there.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
Like Judge Moore, he prattles about the Constitution; like Judge Moore, he hasn't read it and couldn't understand it if he should read it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
White Pants! over and over again while Len prattles on.
From Time ● May 23, 2012
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
She prattled on to her husband and dug around in her black matelassé purse.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
Had he known what attracted her to him initially, what propelled her to listen so patiently as he prattled on about his experiments and his home laboratory, he would have been mortified.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2016
In the trial that ensued, prosecutors argued that Valle really meant to do at least some of what he’d prattled on about in late-night binges at the keyboard.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2015
They laughed and prattled, anticipating the night’s pleasures, while I stayed soberly quiet.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
He’s been prattling on about Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” and sharing Facebook nonsense about centurions ever since.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025
I used my prattling pate and said, “You’re beautiful.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
In the film, Sally Field portrayed the ex-wife, an imperious interior designer prattling on about Regency-style tables and Flemish tapestries.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
A natural modesty prevents him from prattling on about himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
Mackey, what is it you’re prattling about over there?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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