as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
parents often claim to understand the prattle of their infant offspring
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as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
spent an hour on the phone prattling on about nothing in particular
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as in to chatter
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
stop prattling and calmly tell us the news
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Recent Examples of prattle
Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
His memoir is a litany of petty fights, a constant takedown of enemies and a cascade of self-aggrandizing prattle.
—Elizabeth Spiers, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
On a recent evening, psychologists, students, and scholars wandered the rooms, sipping wine and prattling about the collection.
—Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
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Noun
The British playwright David Hare, who adapted a Maigret book for the stage, insists that Simenon—being Belgian-born and so an outsider—disdained the usual French prattle about gastronomy, and therefore cared little for the subject.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
His memoir is a litany of petty fights, a constant takedown of enemies and a cascade of self-aggrandizing prattle.
—Elizabeth Spiers, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2022
Verb
The result is an entirely incoherent crime thriller that features gangsters prattling on about the self and the ego and the soul and then occasionally wandering into an entirely different scene where other gangsters are prattling on about the same thing.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
On a recent evening, psychologists, students, and scholars wandered the rooms, sipping wine and prattling about the collection.
—Elizabeth Winkler, The New Yorker, 23 June 2023
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Soon, a dozen people would be chatting in the street about work, soccer, food, border crossings, family.Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
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And strolling while chatting allowed politicians to avoid eavesdroppers.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Dec. 2024
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At various points in the third-person action-adventure, the fabric of Indika’s reality is ripped apart, the game’s geometry morphing, transmuting, and reconfiguring itself, all while Lucifer chatters incessantly in her ear.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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All of this runs counter to the narrative — popular among Washington’s chattering class — that a young and restive crop of Democrats is clamoring to scrap the seniority system that’s guided the party’s committee-selection process for years.Mike Lillis, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
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That ain't the show, the show is the nonsense that's happening in between John Wick.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Like, a walking, talking, human-size chimp, portrayed and voiced by a combination of a motion-capture actor (Jonnie Davies), a musician (Adam Tucker), and Williams himself.David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
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Foligno understands players can talk to the NHLPA and league about stiffer penalties.Michael Russo, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
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In the clip, Sidibe can be heard teaching her children how to sing as the twins babble along in their little seats with their names printed on the front.Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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Our son was babbling at first, then suddenly started laughing uncontrollably, totally fixated on something above his crib.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2024
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Footage of the rescue, shared by the HCSO, shows the moment the rescuers’ boats converged on the buoy and crews conversed with the survivors.Abigail Adams, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Chesney will often be found helping with the residents’ free time, serving ice cream, and conversing with the residents.Gabrielle Chenault, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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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
Verb
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In babies and toddlers, the first signs, such as drooling and scratching, may appear mild.Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 7 Jan. 2025
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Public health officials are urging residents who may have fed their pets Monarch raw products or other raw meat or dairy products, and who may have noticed their pet acting peculiar — lethargic, loss of motor control, drooling, etc. — to immediately contact their veterinarian.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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“Prattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prattle. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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