blather
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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
How do you think she feels watching RFK Jr. blather on about vaccines?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
"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
Still, given the out-of-the-box means by which "Andor" augments what we know about "Star Wars," returning to familiar digital explosions, glow-stick fencing matches and earnest blather about searching one's feelings feels like a regression.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2023
They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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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
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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
The Holmesdale captain, Mark Epps, rejected a request to delay the start – "This isn't friendly schoolboy cricket," he blathered, hugging his Little Book of Mental Disintegration.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2011
Pushing our chairs back, we both grabbed our bonnets, blathered something to Mrs. Drysdale about getting some fresh air, and skittered out the back door.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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I called A&W Restaurants’ headquarters in Lexington, Ky. I reached the chairman, Kevin Bazner, 71, and started blathering on about Camp Golden Eagle and the stand on Highway 51.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I was letting off steam and it was more online blathering than anything,” he said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2021
His blathering on the subject was incoherent as always.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2021
This was just blathering with no particular expectation of a response.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2020
Despite his riding-in-silence comment, Coach was blathering on, probably telling me a story, but I wasn't really listening.
From "Ghost" by Jason Reynolds
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