loose talk
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The challenge is verifying all that loose talk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
"There was some loose talk of him taking a year out and learning bass, and then us doing a gig and him coming on stage and dropping the maddest bassline anyone's ever seen," he reveals.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
All of that creates a powerful temptation: just ignore the loose talk.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2020
Cotton’s earlier loose talk about bioweapons set off a furor, back when he first raised it in late January and called the outbreak “worse than Chernobyl.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2020
“People seem pretty excited about what you’ve done. There’s a lot of loose talk out in Mansfield. Do you think this represents a real threat?”
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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