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noun

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as in babbling

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chattering

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verb

present participle of chatter
1
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation chattered idly while waiting in line

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2
as in drooling
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly the parrot chatters all day

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chattering
  1. babbling
  2. chatting
  3. talking
  4. prattle
  5. chatter
  6. jabber
  7. whisper
Noun
  • Moore, even in her 90s, is quite the babbling brook — twinkly and self-possessed, a calm pathological narcissist, the kind of person who spins out her life like a novel, making stories she’s told a million times sound spontaneous.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Leon leaned down to inspect how the cement bags were holding up against the babbling water.
    Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Definition of babbling
Verb
  • The new system lets users ask questions about NASA’s satellite data in plain English, similar to chatting with a virtual assistant.
    Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • While chatting exclusively with PEOPLE, the actress, 38, opens up about her time starring in the popular CBS sitcom.
    Nicholas Rice, People.com, 19 Oct. 2024
Definition of chatting
Verb
  • Let’s look at the other two trades before talking waiver wire moves.
    Todd Boss, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The police video shows the officers milling about and talking as Nichols struggles with his injuries.
    Adrian Sainz, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of talking
Noun
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • 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
Definition of prattle
Noun
  • Quartz’s Rocio Fabbro runs down Powell’s limited chatter about it.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Around 9:15, someone turned up the volume and Rachel Maddow’s voice rose above the chatter, warning that results would be coming in all night.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of chatter
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of jabber
Noun
  • Wednesday’s report comes after earlier data showed the economy added a whopping 254,000 jobs in September, inflation is a whisper away from the Federal Reserve’s 2% target and consumer confidence jumped this month by the fastest clip since March of 2021 — all signs of a robust economy.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
  • There was also a missed opportunity during the Tribal whispers portion of the evening.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of whisper
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