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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

“So, you two going to gab all day or order?”

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

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

He ran across an interview transcript between Peter Hujar, a photographer Sachs had long admired, and writer Linda Rosenkrantz, in which the two gabbed in her Manhattan apartment in 1974.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025

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

Just around the corner from the VA hospital where Cline worked, families huddled maskless and gabbed over heaps of pasta at the local Olive Garden.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2021

Some people gabbed, some groused; others stood silently, forming a line that snaked around the block, waiting for Century 21, the Lower Manhattan bargain hunters’ mecca, to open for business.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2020

The two of them gabbed for a good five minutes before we resumed our slow march.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

They were the ones with the open bars, the gabbing salespeople, and the display of blinking cabinets set to free-play mode.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

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

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

We would stay up all night gabbing, sometimes while Rosa pinned wedding dresses on me that she was altering for work.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose