as in chat
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
a bit of chitchat over lunch with people we hadn't seen in a while
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Recent Examples of chitchat
Hawkins makes this seem like a monumental spew of words rather than benign chitchat.
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Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
These were among the points of pre-roundtable chitchat on a recent afternoon in West Hollywood when The Times gathered five musicians nominated for prizes at February’s 67th Grammy Awards.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Yes, but: The practice in recent months has seen a slow but steady return to the land of cubicles, water cooler chitchat and harsh fluorescent lighting.
—Jeremy Duda, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
Keep them in active cancellation mode to mute external noise like traffic or chitchat, or put them in transparency mode to hear what’s going on around you.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
These were among the points of pre-roundtable chitchat on a recent afternoon in West Hollywood when The Times gathered five musicians nominated for prizes at February’s 67th Grammy Awards.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Yes, but: The practice in recent months has seen a slow but steady return to the land of cubicles, water cooler chitchat and harsh fluorescent lighting.
—Jeremy Duda, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
Keep them in active cancellation mode to mute external noise like traffic or chitchat, or put them in transparency mode to hear what’s going on around you.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chitchat
Noun
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Feel free to copy and paste it to your pre-baby-meeting group chats, or use it as a jumping off point for your own personal message.—
Beth Ann Mayer,
Parents,
9 Apr. 2025
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Murdoch, now Isomorphic’s president, told CNBC in an interview by video chat.—
Hayden Field,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the case of viral chatter, the message would be a human pandemic.—
Ron Barrett,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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Instead of dialogue, the SEAL team communicates through chatter.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Trump and Carney agreed that Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister of international trade, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick will intensify talks to address the coming tariffs in the interim.—
Rob Gillies,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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These comments come after the U.S. conducted separate peace talks with Moscow and Kyiv in Saudi Arabia, which led to a partial ceasefire in the Black Sea and an agreement to halt strikes on energy infrastructure.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Chitchat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chitchat. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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