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In plain language, that means he’s probably going to ramble late into the night about a bunch of baseless conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026

His fusion of speaking and singing allows him to ramble as he embraces absurdity, non sequiturs and free association with a stand-up comic’s sense of timing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Speaking to The Times of London, he said that radio pop in 2026 is one long ramble.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

But, more often, he presented it as "a chapter of accidents" and "a diverting and enjoyable ramble through life".

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024

Or if I hadn’t forgotten, I’d at least buried it deep with all the things I wouldn’t say, and I stood there for a few minutes, watching Twig ramble on without really hearing her.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Usually when a person rambles, myself included, it’s because they don’t feel comfortable with the person to whom they are talking.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Hendrickson rambles for too long before redirecting to his client, asking Lynch about some sort of media venture he’s working on.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2024

The bacteria are shed in the lizard’s feces and can end up on the animal’s skin and just about anywhere the bearded dragon rambles.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Asked about defending Taiwan, she rambled about making sure “we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Within the monument, we rambled along Soda Lake Road, admiring windmills, an old ranch house now reserved for bats, and a few hills dotted with lazy cows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

For once, nobody rambled, nobody went off script, and almost everyone remembered to thank their mum.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

During the 10-minute phone interview, he ranted and rambled and seemed to be accidentally pressing various buttons on his phone, punctuating the broadcast with random beeping—that is, until he was ultimately cut off.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2024

I was so tired that I rambled a bit, but he was patient with my digressions.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

During the war, he baffled international negotiators with rambling diatribes on Serbian history.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The bulk of these pages are written in the voice of Eddy’s castmate Jordan Brown, who is giving a rambling, unfiltered interview to a journalist from Out magazine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

In 1962, the Saar family moved to a rambling hillside home in Laurel Canyon, then a very rustic part of L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

Though often rambling and incoherent, the letters have taken up the court’s time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Johnny’s father and namesake, the son of an Irish emigree who had become a Union Cavalryman, had spent his young adulthood rambling across the western Canadian wilderness in search of gold.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand