jabber
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Marine Le Pen said the press conference was "yet another interminable jabber".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2023
This accursed Olympiad has brought a lot—a lot—of jabber about diversity and inclusion and athlete safety and athlete centeredness.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021
If there were, the loudest mouth and wittiest jabber would have thought of it by now.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2020
I listen to jabber- jabber from Quebec, a farm report from Minnesota, and a country station in Nashville.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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The men’s antagonism deepens as Wake jabbers and Winslow rages, a fury that Pattinson makes visible with eyes that widen into bulges and tremors of emotion that ping under a masklike vacancy.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2019
Lorena jabbers on about something, but I’m not really paying attention because she calls herself a restauraNteur, so she loses all credibility in my book.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2011
"Yeah, John Kirk, yeah!" writes, or shouts, or yells, or jabbers Piers Gee.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010
Now, in orchestrated and intermittent darkness, something less familiar is afoot as Firs, an old man in a nightshirt, with staring eyes, urges us to enter and jabbers at us in Russian.
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010
I—I know you are only a bullfrog, but, be jabbers, that sounded mightily like speech.
From Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
We jabbered about whether Bryant was better than Michael Jordan and the intense rivalry between the Sixers and the Lakers in the 1980s as we waited for Bryant’s face to flash again on the screen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024
It was a woman in a blue dress who stood in a stairwell above them, gazing upward in a warm beam of light as Rep. Matt Gaetz jabbered at her feet.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2019
The Oakland, Calif., native was one of the game's notorious trash-talkers, who jabbered away at opposing players, coaches and fans while constantly bobbing his head.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2013
The UN have intervened on flimsier grounds than those offered by Ashley Cole and Bellamy as they jabbered and jabbed their way through the first half-hour, until Bellamy, regrettably, switched flanks.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 2011
On the ride back to Colby, Jackie and Bertha jabbered away like they’d been best friends forever.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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After jabbering about it since 2023, Tyreek Hill and Noah Lyles announced they are going to race, but the speed freaks can’t say where and can’t say when.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025
Gone was all the jabbering and minutia that was presented, and only the important information was conveyed to the fan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2024
When it’s time to stop jabbering and start jabbing, he believes there will be a big difference against a fighter who’s had only about half as many professional fights.
From Seattle Times ● May 27, 2022
Rogan’s mellow dudespeak sounds nothing like the late Rush Limbaugh’s smug scoffing, or Glenn Beck’s exasperated jabbering, or Alex Jones’s shouty, pro-wrestler-in-a-helicopter-crash thing.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
This guy was real desperate for a friend because even though I wouldn’t say much back to him he kept jabbering away at me all through class.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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