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Marine Le Pen said the press conference was "yet another interminable jabber".

From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024

This accursed Olympiad has brought a lot—a lot—of jabber about diversity and inclusion and athlete safety and athlete centeredness.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2021

If there were, the loudest mouth and wittiest jabber would have thought of it by now.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2020

Just don’t jabber about this mountain hideaway to anybody else, for we don’t need a stampede.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2019

“And they’re watching you stand there and jabber back at us right now too. So watch what you say.”

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The men’s antagonism deepens as Wake jabbers and Winslow rages, a fury that Pattinson makes visible with eyes that widen into bulges and tremors of emotion that ping under a masklike vacancy.

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2019

Lorena jabbers on about something, but I’m not really paying attention because she calls herself a restauraNteur, so she loses all credibility in my book.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2011

"Yeah, John Kirk, yeah!" writes, or shouts, or yells, or jabbers Piers Gee.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2010

Now, in orchestrated and intermittent darkness, something less familiar is afoot as Firs, an old man in a nightshirt, with staring eyes, urges us to enter and jabbers at us in Russian.

From The Guardian ● May 8, 2010

If this keeps up I think I'll finish swell Among the jabbers in a padded cell.

From The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor by Wallace Irwin

We jabbered about whether Bryant was better than Michael Jordan and the intense rivalry between the Sixers and the Lakers in the 1980s as we waited for Bryant’s face to flash again on the screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

It was a woman in a blue dress who stood in a stairwell above them, gazing upward in a warm beam of light as Rep. Matt Gaetz jabbered at her feet.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2019

The Oakland, Calif., native was one of the game's notorious trash-talkers, who jabbered away at opposing players, coaches and fans while constantly bobbing his head.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2013

Days later, against the Nets, Thompson was heard yelling “Cuz!” to try to get Cousins’s attention as he jabbered with a referee in the middle of a play, not an uncommon occurrence.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2012

On the ride back to Colby, Jackie and Bertha jabbered away like they’d been best friends forever.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

There will be more jabbering Thursday, each team jockeying for what might be another historic final say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

The hospital sent trusted colleagues and supervisors to talk to unvaccinated colleagues, a strategy that Lubarsky said was “far more effective than me jabbering over an email.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

The larger question is how much damage, direct and collateral, has been done to the sport since this jabbering over money went public, even if it ends with some semblance of a season.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2020

Meanwhile, she warps the expectations of verse-chorus-verse forms, talk-singing or chanting as long as she wishes, sometimes letting choruses of overdubbed Fionas — dulcet ones, jabbering ones — completely hijack her tunes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2020

This guy was real desperate for a friend because even though I wouldn’t say much back to him he kept jabbering away at me all through class.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis