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In fact, I expected the outcome since about day seven, including China’s role in bringing about a settlement, though minus any blather on my part about a victory for the mullahs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

"All this blather about Mr Adams being a member of the army council is not something you have to decide," he told the jury.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

After all the idealistic blather on both sides, it boils down to TV money, and Florida State sold its soul to that devil long, long ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2023

Since my time was wasted listening to two of the most hated people in America blather at each other, allow me to help you preserve yours.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023

Rosy and Gosling were pugnaciously assertive: their future course of action would be unaffected by their fifty-mile excursion into adolescent blather.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

If she wants to call witnesses to rebut specific lies he blathers, she can.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

“One of the things that almost every longtime survivor I know has commented on is how eerie it is to see them up there smiling and nodding while this fool blathers on,” he says.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2020

First, he sees through the pontification of the hall’s snooty administrator, who blathers on about the philanthropic purpose of wealth.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2016

He blathers on about Picasso as a rogue sociopath, a narcissist out to make someone suffer, maybe his mom or his dad or himself or the whole world.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2012

Heather paints her nails on her desk blotter and blathers.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

He blathered incoherently about the New York Times' award-winning 1619 Project, which explores the origins of American democracy and its irrevocable connections to white-on-Black chattel slavery.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2020

For now, though, Koepka is ascendant, and for all the reasons I've blathered on about for the last four hours, what he's accomplished in the past two years is more than just remarkable—it's singular.

From Golf Digest ● May 19, 2019

Pundits blathered above a ticker of the latest headlines.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2015

"I can't tell you how excited I am about joining the tAlkSpOrT team," blathered Gray.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2011

The lieu-tenant blathered on about major versus minor offenses, the need to make judgments, and so on, apparently expecting me to say, “Oh, I get it!” and withdraw from his office.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

And don’t be surprised if I think you’re a blathering chucklehead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

I thought of how Sam Donaldson or, God forbid, Helen Thomas, would have reacted to such blathering and I knew once again that the other problem in Washington is us — the press.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

“I was letting off steam and it was more online blathering than anything,” he said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

Then, when he’s wrong, which is often enough, we have to hear him blathering apologies and falling all over himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2020

“Hell, I go looking for you in Imre all the time, but I don’t actually expect to find you ” I trailed off, realizing that I was blathering.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss