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[chat-ee] / ˈtʃæt i /


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Mr. Damasio’s prose is informal—self-consciously chatty and unaffected, addressed to his “dear reader” and peppered by plenty of exclamation marks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

He was chatty and upbeat, and she told him she would try to find him work, potentially as an assistant at her law firm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026

A chatty debrief on Taylor and Travis’ wedding: We have to hand it to Taylor Swift—it’s a real feat that she managed to keep many details of her Friday wedding to Travis Kelce under wraps.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

Mr. Spector sketches with subtlety the relationships that simmer beneath the surface of the chatty, sharp and—it must be admitted—sometimes exhaustingly digressive dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Katherine is chatty as a magpie on the way to the mayor’s house, and even Miss Duncan looks a bit fatigued from attempting to share in her good humor.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

China has Huawei, Tencent, ByteDance, BYD, DJI and CATL, it argued; America has produced little besides “a search engine that’s a bit chattier than the old ones, running on Taiwan-fab’d chips.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

And if adults were chattier, so, too, were their children: On average, kids spoke 27 times more per hour for every 100 extra adult vocalizations they heard.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 19, 2023

Another, Cassidy, is chattier, saying he hopes to reunite with his siblings in Bremerton.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

She says customers these days are chattier, interested in how she is doing and generally more grateful.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2023

He had become much chattier since our overnight stay at Wahid’s house.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

"As a guy, I feel the need to be more masculine, more strong," says Izaiah - the chattiest of the boys in the session we observe.

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

Think of the chattiest creatures in the animal kingdom and songbirds, dolphins, and—yes—humans probably come to mind.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2022

De Angelis is the chattiest in English; Raggi and Torchio were more laid-back, while frontman David was mostly content to quietly smolder on the rooftop lounge couch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

The return flight contained the chattiest group of passengers I’ve ever had the privilege of joining.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2020

In his quest for interviews about the hurricane, one of the chattiest of Stuart's informants had been a Mr. James, a resident of Barbados, but whose commercial interests were mainly in Trinidad.

From Plotting in Pirate Seas by C. A. (Charles A.) Federer




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