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jabber

[jab-er] / ˈdʒæb ər /


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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

While Bartles — the rancher — would jabber away as the pair stared at the camera, Jaymes had it easy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2015

In the lead was a girl I had talked to in Shageluk, who had advised me not to stand around at the checkpoints and jabber.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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

"Be jabbers an' I wouldn't wonder but what he was right!" cried Tim Sullivan, excitedly.

From Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes by Victor [pseud.] Appleton

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

As men jabbered around us, the woman tightened her hold on me.

From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2013

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

“Mr. Rael?” a woman’s voice jabbered irately, “you ain’t gonna believe this, but guess what?”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The incessant jabbering between Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser during every Dodgers game has ruined the game-watching experience for me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

“It was a perfect match of subversives,” the Oregonian wrote: “Wieden, the high-strung, jabbering, radical writer, and Kennedy, the taciturn, philosophical artist.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022

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

When I finally did, I peeked through the apartment door and saw a half-dozen people happily jabbering away.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2021

“Enough jabbering about rules and monsters,” Grandpa said, standing up.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull




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