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buzz chatter chitchat conversation hearsay news scandal slander tale

account babble blather blether calumny chronicle clothesline cry defamation earful grapevine injury meddling prate prattle report scuttlebutt story talk wire

dirty laundry dirty linen dirty wash idle talk malicious talk small talk whispering campaign

quiet silence

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comment fabrication falsehood gossip hearsay hoax innuendo lie news report scandal story suggestion tale whisper word

breeze bruit canard cry dispatch earful fame fiction grapevine intelligence invention notoriety repute rumble scuttlebutt supposition tattle tidings wire

evidence proof quiet silence truth

babble blather chatter chitchat grapevine hearsay meddling prattle rumor talk

dirty laundry

truth

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