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rambling

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noun

rambling

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verb

present participle of ramble

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of rambling
Adjective
Refine your key points to be clear and concise—no rambling monologues. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025 In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home. Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024 His statement came a day after the release of the Netflix series, which takes viewers back to the morning after Christmas 28 years ago, when JonBenét’s mother called 911 to report finding a rambling ransom note and her daughter missing. Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024 There is more than 178 feet of beach and ocean frontage, which can be accessed via a rambling wooden staircase. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024 Some, of course, will find this style of writing off-putting and too rambling or the prose verging on purple, the narrative perhaps not story-driven enough. Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 Trump, who has faced ridicule from Democrats and other critics for his rambling rallies, accused Micklethwait of jumping back and forth between topics. Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024 The Harris campaign, her allies, and Trump’s enemies have sought to capitalize on the age concerns by incessantly highlighting Trump’s rambling and bizarre tangents in his speeches, factual errors and nonsensical answers to questions from reporters and voters. Sara Dorn, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 The big picture: Trump took Harris' bait throughout the evening, often making rambling statements or unleashing personal attacks that are unlikely to appeal to moderate voters. Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rambling
Adjective
  • Love: Chi, The Spa Rest your wandering feet at the Shangri-La’s lower level spa, complete with a gardenside pool fit for royalty.
    Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • The film is narrated in the languages of the cultures the characters move through, as Burmese gives way to Thai, to Vietnamese, and beyond — a wandering, collective dream.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • My favorite early fact about Pope Bob from Chicago comes from his talkative brother John.
    Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 12 May 2025
  • Audiences that get hyped up, like Thai audiences, are like talkative people.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, Best was cast for the malleable mannerisms and babbling delivery displayed in his stand-up comedy, and sat with Lucas to study the motivation behind Keaton’s movement.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025
  • It’s been almost a quarter-century since Renée Zellweger first stepped into the shoes of the wine-guzzling, smoking, babbling, pratfall-prone and terminally awkward title character in Bridget Jones’s Diary.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • According to Smithsonian, the institute’s idyllic backdrop, with open fields where patients could imagine animals roaming free, helped convince the doctor's dozens of patients that her practices were legit.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Who knows how regular this blues-rock gig will be for the perpetually roaming Murray, but the timing is good.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The ensemble was crafted with a form-fitting silhouette and included such exaggerated elements as sharp shoulders.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 23 May 2025
  • Her ensemble also featured a black floor-length gown with exaggerated shoulders and a turquoise bow belt extending into a floor-grazing sash.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • While the animals couldn’t communicate to confirm whether the technology was working, their behaviors and physiology provided indirect clues to the team.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2025
  • For one, there’s the notion of indirect value, which is hard to quantify for software providers that aren’t in the business of sales enablement solutions.
    Chris Mele, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the clip, Harris gave a wordy answer when asked about Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Though some critics at the time were exasperated by having to read such a big, wordy book, The Times selected it as one of the best books of the year.
    Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But Sieh is the standout, emitting a complex blend of sardonic acceptance, cynical verbosity and submerged emotional longing.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Coogler can let his characters’ verbosity get the better of story momentum.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Rambling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rambling. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.

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