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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

When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

There is no one to keep him company up there, so he jabbers.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

She jabbered incessantly about the song she’d been playing, what she thought of our mother’s mushroom soup, how much she wanted to go to high school.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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 mom called back to them, “You girls are starting to sound like a broken record,” the jabbering was replaced by confused silence.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2021

But there was too much of them hanging over the bakers, jabbering away, not being helpful and sometimes, one felt, being an actual hindrance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2020

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

And the squirrel’s jabbering voice caught the attention of nearby creatures.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown