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Anyone who has ever watched an interview with Mr. McConaughey, or delved into his enchanting memoir “Greenlights,” is aware that listening to him gab is a treat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"Laurent had the good-natured gab, Simone the uncompromising discourse," French newspaper Le Monde said of the Gbagbos' political partnership.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

Workplaces provided easy ways to form friendships or at least gab by the water cooler—a particularly important resource in a country where 15 percent of Americans have one close friend, if any.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2024

Now they're meeting at Mar-a-Lago in free-wheeling gab sessions around the golf course and the dining-room tables.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024

Gawaine said: “For the last time, Agravaine, will ye hold yer gab? I winna have airt nor pairt in it.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Paul puts ‘bust’ in filibuster He doesn’t make it on the list of longest Senate gabs — but reading from Twitter instead of phone books might be a first.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2013

And in an era in which Lady Gaga gabs on about subverting gender and sexuality norms, these fellows strut the strut.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2012

Mark, a towering, perennially upbeat presence, relentlessly gabs away; Jay, short and bearded, lingers alongside.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2010

Scarlet gabs on a phone attached to the wall, Ruby reads a book, and Carmen admires herself in the sunlight that cascades through a window.

From Slate ● May 26, 2009

Mrs. Fischer gabs about our quest to save the coyote until Ms. Andrews cuts her off.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

After her first date with now-fiancé Chris about a year ago, she gabbed with Marmo like any girlfriend would.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

The two strangers gabbed on and on as FitzGerald turned off the highway and looped through side streets.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2022

“I thought she was stunning, unpretentious and real. She asked about Bella and didn’t talk about herself. We gabbed until 3 a.m.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

As they waited for the medical team to come over, they gabbed about things on the block, who had moved where.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021

He’d have gabbed about it all day except that Mayor Axelrod pulled him back to his duties as official photographer.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Sure, sometimes coworkers can feel like friends, but that doesn’t mean you can spend an hour gabbing about last night’s date.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2025

Every second of every day, there are stocks going up and down because nonprofessional traders are gabbing about them on Reddit and in Discord servers and group chats.

From Slate ● May 13, 2024

Interviewed today in what looks like his den, he sits for Bahrani’s questioning looking like a relatively harmless uncle who can’t stop gabbing about his war stories.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2022

Residents go to the post office on Fetters Mill Road near the old train tracks to snag their letters and packages while gabbing with friends and relatives they run into.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

“Right now we have to get out of sight. None of this matters if they bag us while we’re gabbing in broad daylight. I’ll go out again tonight, check things out.”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi