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as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the two friends can blab for hours on the phone
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as in to gossip
to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature
he blabs a lot, so never share a secret with him
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Recent Examples of blab
Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
End of carousel With your permission to blab your money secrets, the company earns extra income from showing you advertisements for the next three years for things like credit cards and mortgage offers targeted to your financial situation.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
On cue, the CDC's latest update is being met with the usual tomato-throwing response from the anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-logic members of the blab-o-sphere who have declared the CDC hopelessly lost, unscientific and waffling.
—Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
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Verb
When her son, Julien, blabbed about Debbie’s crazy, on-screen breakup with her new beau, the Georgia native admitted to holding some indignity over the 43-year age gap relationship.
—Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
End of carousel With your permission to blab your money secrets, the company earns extra income from showing you advertisements for the next three years for things like credit cards and mortgage offers targeted to your financial situation.
—Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
Lots of people just blab on about personal things to me, but this is a medical office.
—Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022
On cue, the CDC's latest update is being met with the usual tomato-throwing response from the anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-science, anti-logic members of the blab-o-sphere who have declared the CDC hopelessly lost, unscientific and waffling.
—Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 2 Aug. 2021
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The bride learned of this change of plans ahead of the first look and immediately asked for a walkie-talkie to chat with Alex.Shelby Wax, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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The two continued their playful competition, tossing darts and chatting more about the Earthshot Prize and its vision.Erin Hill, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Baseball fans still gossip about which players might be flouting the tobacco ban.Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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With a trip to Bali two days away and tensions remaining high, the women are naturally gossiping about how to logistically navigate women who cannot help but get into it with each other the second a Champagne flute touches her lips, with voice messages and FaceTime calls abound.Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 July 2024
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Petra came to talk to Gabriel late in the evening, when she was possessed by fears for her parents.Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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When talking with a reporter, Torbenson flipped through Givens’ case to get the basics.John Diedrich, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
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Indeed, one of the things the movies and TV always get wrong is that whenever there’s a scene in a restaurant the characters converse with barely a whisper in the background.John Mariani, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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On his journey to figure out how to fix it, T meets vibrant individuals along the way, trying to converse and pick others’ brains to achieve his ultimate goal – to protect all his possessions.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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Today, her daughter, Dana, is growing up like any other Swiss suburban child, in Basel now, splashing around in toddler swim classes and speaking to her mother in a babbling mix of English and Ukrainian.Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2024
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Washington mom uses sign language to convey daughter’s babbling to deaf husband Courtney Lotane recently documented her car ride in Seattle, Washington.Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023
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Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
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The world is filled with chatter about whether AI can fulfill its promise in delivering ROI to the enterprise.R. Scott Raynovich, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The vibe of the evening is a slow crescendo, our chatter building to the point where three or four of us are simultaneously talking into our phones and thrusting them in front of one another, all with a remarkable sense of good cheer.Joe Ray, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Blab.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blab. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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