gossip
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The website became known as a pop culture hub, where readers could indulge in the latest celebrity gossip or discover a unique cooking recipe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Clement’s lawyer said in a statement that the report found against her “on the pretext of ‘perception,’ the source of which was rumour, gossip and innuendo.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
But there is little in the public record to document this, other than items in the gossip pages about their golf bouts.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Swifties and their ideological opposites have both been Monday-morning quarterbacking last weekend’s shindig, accepting even the weirdest bad-faith gossip without question.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Someone who didn’t like to gossip, even if they secretly did.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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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
The chapters fly at the reader in column-length bursts, and the perspective bops about from that of our heroine to neighborhood gossips, savvy editors and that unforgettable mother-in-law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025
Williams has long understood why people love gossip and equally adore and abhor gossips: they cause controversy, and sometimes force a public, corrective response.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
Belén gossips about everyone in town, even when I have no idea who they are.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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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
Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
Some are afraid that if they reveal too much they could be gossiped about.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024
We gossiped as we cooked small eggs and sweet potatoes on top of the houlu just to enjoy their smell.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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That as a rule, he gossipped and shared his tobacco with sailors and fishermen, and brought out the sock much oftener than was prudent for the benefit of the ragged boys who haunt the quay.
From Tales from Many Sources Vol. V by Various
Soon the rest who had wondered and praised and blamed and gossipped forgot about him; they had no more attention to give him, no more flattery, no more allegiance.
From Quisanté by Hope, Anthony
Have any of you gossipped like old women, either with him or with Deer Runner?”
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph
And Flora devoutly kissed her, then gossipped pleasantly about the other guests and the people in the neighborhood.
From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
The hum of several thousand voices, as the gathered people gossipped about the image, made quite a volume of sound.
From The Mark of the Beast by Watson, Sidney
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
“You hear people gossiping in the locker room, or you hear about cool art shows that are happening or dance parties,” says Hansen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
The time guys normally spend learning in GED or college classes, or socializing and building community in prisoner-run workshops, is now wasted inside their cells gossiping and scheming.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025
A few beats later, she slides in gossiping about Laurie’s menace of a kid and gnarly divorce.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025
Meeting Dr. King didn’t pay my bills or stop people from gossiping about me and Raymond.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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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
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 Gozzi, Carlo
I’m not their maid, and she had no business to stand here gossipping about Miss Nevins.
From The Girls at Mount Morris by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Return to Table of Contents 'Wine and Walnuts' was a good title for a gossipping book; 'Claret and Olives' is a better.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 by Chambers, William
I had frequently seen the woman; and her name, as the rector and I were one evening gossipping over our tea, on some subject or other that I forget, came up.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
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