gossip

People with well-recognised Cuban-American surnames – like Bacardi and Babun – chat around the pool about the lamentable state of the island's economy, and share titbits of gossip about the latest political rumblings.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Her popular podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me is full of gossip, oversharing and comic bickering - music to the ears of the Traitors producers, no doubt.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

You may think the floor-to-ceiling speakers drown out your work gossip, but even at the loudest shows talking can be disruptive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The celebrity gossip blogger became as famous as the stars he covered before social media upended his business model.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Ninety percent of my conversations with Skye and Madi involved harmless gossip: Did Violet Pennington kiss Theo Harris on the lips or is Theo lying?

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

She smiles, laughs, cries, makes jokes, stomps her foot, flirts and gossips about other women with a girlfriend.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Capitol Hill gossips, including journalists from whom one might have hoped to hear something before now, evidently knew about Mr. Swalwell’s behavior for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Rosenblum snaps back to the beginning of the summer, where she lays out her rogues’ gallery of gossips, hypocrites, cheaters.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

“That’s where all the best gossips in town have gathered.”

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

For the past few years, residents of the tiny Palm Meadows Estates gated community in Boynton Beach, Fla., have gossiped about a string of home purchases that quietly took place in their neighborhood in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

During his childhood, Almodóvar sometimes sat and listened under the kitchen table while his mother and other women gossiped and shared secrets, Moore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his high chair.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling

M.P.’s gossipped in the lobby—or dined—or smoked—or drank brandy-and-water—in short, did anything but listen to Mr. Wilson; and yet this was a grave, serious government measure. 

From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

And Jessie, being new to the fashionable world, shrank from having her heart-history gossipped about.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

She sank lower than ever; she missed going to her work oftener, gossipped for whole days, and became as soft as a rag whenever she had any work to do.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Arthur Mee

Gradually it became gossipped about that the Duke of Bolton's suit had succeeded.

From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Charles Edward Pearce

In the forepart of the oven, on either hand, stood a variety of pots and pipkins, and gossipped together in their several tones.

From Yiddish Tales by Various

There is no reality in which gossiping about someone’s weight loss, especially on social media, is a way toward helping or healing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

But instead of gossiping about who’s dating whom, collaborators batted around their pasts and infused the darkly comedic anthology series with themes of samsara and the Jungian Shadow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

She stayed up until 03:00 gossiping with other women in her room.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

I felt like he was gossiping about me to a lot of people, and during one review, it became clear that he was.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

It might sound like a warning, like the way George might correct her for gossiping, but the way it comes from Emmett means tell me more.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers

Robinson and Frances Glandney, who married in 2002, were part of a group of longtime pals and she knew they’d start gossipping about her and the legendary singer-songwriter.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Jim had no intimates, and had he chosen such, Mr. Holtz, gossipping, idle, stingy, and shallow of brain, would scarcely have been the man.

From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch

Though our family was a veritable lunatic asylum of poets, no one cared to translate the good creature's gossipping garrulity into verse.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

This gossipping woman would not have ventured to hint at what had passed, had you kept her at a proper distance: but the easy impudence of such people in these degenerate times astonishes me.

From Mystery and Confidence, Vol. 2 A Tale by Elizabeth Pinchard

"Fresh, lively, gay, and gossipping, these 'Fun Jottings' deservedly merit the enduring garb in which they appear."

From Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854) by Julia Griffiths