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[blurt] / blɜrt /


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Cole is a former cop who feels guilty about his father’s death, a backstory as lackluster as the exposition dumps that blurt it out.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

I was just like, trying not to be a stuttering idiot, trying not to blurt out, “I love ‘Pretty Woman’!”

From Salon Oct. 17, 2025

Sometimes Marten and Gordon would abruptly blurt things out from the dock when they took issue with the evidence.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2025

Any mind blurt or ridiculous thought that minnowed behind our eyeballs Midjourney absorbed and spat out.

From Slate Feb. 4, 2025

“Oh no. I hate surprises,” I blurt out.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

When the little boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” blurts out that the emperor is naked, he says what people already knew.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

He’s sort of like a chess player, unless he blurts something out.

From Salon Nov. 20, 2025

When the woman at the agency reveals that all mortgage-backed bonds get AAA ratings, she blurts out that if she doesn’t give the banks the ratings they want, they’ll take their business elsewhere.

From MarketWatch Oct. 11, 2025

An easy, breezy recommendation, “Eleanor the Great” makes only one stumble, a scene that blurts its themes outright, but I suppose that’s in keeping with its leading lady’s big mouth.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2025

Then Nadine blurts out, “Oh, I missed this!”

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

That this didn’t happen has sparked a back-and-forth about culpability, with Deadline reporting BAFTA’s assurance that it made the BBC and the broadcast’s producers aware that the slur was audible shortly after Davidson blurted it.

From Salon Mar. 1, 2026

Soon after, the star blurted out cooler gas measuring a temperature of 10,000 Kelvin moving super-slow at 70 kilometres per second.

From Space Scoop Nov. 19, 2025

But on the day of his college announcement, Easley blurted out that he was going to play for UCLA, his other finalist, during a ceremony at his high school auditorium.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 15, 2025

“Why does it smell like pancakes in here?” a shopper blurted out from an adjoining changing room at Zara.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 8, 2025

Carmen took a breath and blurted it out.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

That might look like blurting things out or firing off a text that should be slept on.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 23, 2026

"She was just crying down the phone, blurting it out in such terror and torment," Ms Will told the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2025

De Niro, who at times appeared grouchy, restrained himself from erupting at the dissection of his interactions with her before finally blurting out: “This is all nonsense!”

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2023

And in “Wretched,” he’s desperately missing someone, feeling lost and abandoned, blurting out that “My life feels wrong without you.”

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2022

No distractions, nothing to stop myself from blurting the things that come to mind.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz




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