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[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

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

I did not want to hear her jabber on about Autumn.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

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

Junior can talk quite well, and even Calvin jabbers.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

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

He jabbered, rambling, moving about in his chair.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

Eventually, I had to conclude — reluctantly — that it was indeed him, emoting from beneath pounds of ruddy latex and jabbering in an overblown accent traceable to somewhere in the vicinity of the Netherlands.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2022

When it’s time to stop jabbering and start jabbing, he believes there will be a big difference against a fighter who’s had only about half as many professional fights.

From Seattle Times May 27, 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

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

Even Pollard, who had been jabbering gaily with reporters since his arrival, stopped talking.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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