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[blurt] / blɜrt /


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Instead of flirting, they’re forever having to blurt out how they feel about their mom and dad.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2025

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

From Slate Feb. 4, 2025

I blurt out in horror at my own comparative inadequacies on the romantic postal front.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2023

She didn't blurt out anything crazy or storm out of the room; however, she was devastated.

From Salon Nov. 9, 2023

In the last video that Lily told me to watch where I blurt out my height.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

What goes down: He accidentally blurts out an inappropriate word that shocks his older co-workers, who don’t understand that the word is often used as a compliment among young people.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

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

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 she blurts out the question Amma told me I should never, ever ask.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Finally, Madden blurted out that he could find a random kid walking around the USC campus in sandals who could have more of an influence than that.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 20, 2026

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

“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

“I think I know your father,” the clerk blurted.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Baker hugged Lucas and thanked the jury before blurting out, “I really don’t know what’s happening now.”

From New York Times May 25, 2024

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

O’Reilly turned to me, an eyebrow raised in disapproval at my blurting disruption.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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