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“I can share with Max as well some of the pet peeves that officials may have as far as player misconduct or coach misconduct or maybe mouthing off too much,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2024

In the Catholic private schools as a young girl mouthing off to the nuns.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2024

When I’m mouthing off about some disaster in the world and how we might be able to help, he’s looking at his watch and saying, “Hurry up. I want to see my kids, Bono.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Technology and personality have combined to make mouthing off a main presidential avocation.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2020

Suddenly, I realize that I’m mouthing off to one of the world’s most powerful people—to my idol, someone I’ve watched and read about and obsessed over for years, someone who had changed my life.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu



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