jabber
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Marine Le Pen said the press conference was "yet another interminable jabber".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
While Washington and Albies jabber at each other nonstop, the familial relationship is obvious.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2021
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
When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
Clever an' edjicated, an' jabbers in half a dozen tongues.
From The Lure of the Mask by Harrison Fisher
We did not necessarily follow Boyle’s meat and beverage protocols, but we jabbered away in a red leather booth, and a good time was had by all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
As men jabbered around us, the woman tightened her hold on me.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2013
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
His mind, suddenly impossibly old, floated out of his body and hovered high above him in the air, from where it jabbered useless warnings.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
When mom called back to them, “You girls are starting to sound like a broken record,” the jabbering was replaced by confused silence.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2021
But there was too much of them hanging over the bakers, jabbering away, not being helpful and sometimes, one felt, being an actual hindrance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2020
The larger question is how much damage, direct and collateral, has been done to the sport since this jabbering over money went public, even if it ends with some semblance of a season.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2020
Everybody’d be jabbering, whether they wanted to or not.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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