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In plain language, that means he’s probably going to ramble late into the night about a bunch of baseless conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2026

His answers began to ramble slightly as the interviews dragged on.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

We had planned to visit one of the city’s renowned art museums, but instead opted for a ramble through the Dorsoduro district.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Speaking to The Times of London, he said that radio pop in 2026 is one long ramble.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026

“What a lovely day it is! If there wasn’t so much work to do in the house, I’d take a nice long ramble outside myself.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Usually when a person rambles, myself included, it’s because they don’t feel comfortable with the person to whom they are talking.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Among their findings: Weekend automobile rambles were replacing church attendance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

He then played a clip in which Trump rambles about his White House ballroom in response to a reporter’s question about how he was handling Kirk’s death.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025

The bacteria are shed in the lizard’s feces and can end up on the animal’s skin and just about anywhere the bearded dragon rambles.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Asked about defending Taiwan, she rambled about making sure “we are moving in all of our economic research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

After Trump rambled through a short speech, it was Rubio’s time to offer remarks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2026

Davis was really good at getting Trump to shut up when he rambled.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024

During the 10-minute phone interview, he ranted and rambled and seemed to be accidentally pressing various buttons on his phone, punctuating the broadcast with random beeping—that is, until he was ultimately cut off.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2024

On her first day, I'd rambled over to her in my regular uniform of jeans and sneakers and offered to answer any questions she might have to help her get acclimated.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

But in his final public campaign appearance on Monday, Trump barely touched on the election and gave a rambling talk about his problem-plagued renovation of Washington's Reflecting Pool.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

But in his final public campaign appearance Monday, Trump barely touched on the economy and spent most of the time in a rambling talk about his problem-plagued renovation of Washington's Reflecting Pool.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

I sent him a rambling voice memo, trying to convey my bewilderment as best as I could.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

This first half is plotless and rambling, with a crime mystery yielding digressions within digressions within digressions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

“Stop rambling, Mr. Gudmundsson. Your purpose here is to ask questions of the witness that refer directly to her testimony. You must refrain from doing anything else—but you know this. Get on with it.”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson