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gossip

[gos-uhp] / ˈgɒs əp /




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This type of gossip is protecting the weak.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Aspen is a place where gossip travels as fast as Moncler-clad skiers on steep runs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Her popular podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me is full of gossip, oversharing and comic bickering - music to the ears of the Traitors producers, no doubt.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

But under the constant watch of phone cameras and gossip that travels at the speed of social media feeds, they face greater pressures.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s bad enough having the whole class laugh at you, never mind being the subject of the teachers’ break-time gossip in the staffroom, too.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The chapters fly at the reader in column-length bursts, and the perspective bops about from that of our heroine to neighborhood gossips, savvy editors and that unforgettable mother-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

Williams has long understood why people love gossip and equally adore and abhor gossips: they cause controversy, and sometimes force a public, corrective response.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

She gossips about the other residents, praises the staff, tells us what she’s been up to.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

As spectators filed through security screening then streamed into the courtroom, they gossiped as key players strode by as though in a stage play, including Dick Harpootlian, the lead defense lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

During his childhood, Almodóvar sometimes sat and listened under the kitchen table while his mother and other women gossiped and shared secrets, Moore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

Its bar was popular with politicians, security officers and civil servants who gossiped as they sipped their beer after work.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024

“People gossiped, you know. I remember. They said all sorts of things about you two. But you’re saying there was nothing.”

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Hannah Gropphusen indemnified herself in her own way by coquetry and flirtations, and she was soon gossipped about as much as her husband.

From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein

"Worship makes worshipped, worshipper, worshipping; gossip, gossipped, gossipper, gossipping; fillip, fillipped, fillipper, fillipping."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Have any of you gossipped like old women, either with him or with Deer Runner?”

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

Thus the fishes gossipped in their own way; but in the artificial water-grotto the laborers were busy; who were obliged to take advantage of the hours of night to get their work done by daybreak.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I run on like this, because you say you like to be gossipped to; and I am just a little lonely here—sometimes.

From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward

“It’s like, ‘We don’t want to hear from you when we’re gossiping about you,’” said social media consultant Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

She stayed up until 03:00 gossiping with other women in her room.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

I briefly joined a book club of some work colleagues when I was teaching in rural Illinois, and it was fun, but most of our time was spent gossiping about, well, work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026

I felt like he was gossiping about me to a lot of people, and during one review, it became clear that he was.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

There was usually a group of men gossiping or playing craps outside, but not that evening, and Moss was grateful for that.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

Robinson and Frances Glandney, who married in 2002, were part of a group of longtime pals and she knew they’d start gossipping about her and the legendary singer-songwriter.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

His friendships are a kind of gossipping friendships, and those commonly within the circle of his trade, wherein he is careful principally to avoid two things, that is poor men and suretiships.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

These rumors were started by the Dubarry servants, in their gossipping with other family servants in the chance meeting in church or village.

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

And so in a few moments we were gossipping cosily about "old times," as we, not very old people, called them.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by William Young

Some were kindly and sympathising, some bitter and full of taunts; but the greater number were simply inquisitive, neither friendly nor hostile, but gossipping.

From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt




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