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as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
a blabber who always wastes my time with drivel
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as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
the parents were delighted by their toddler's blabber and encouraged her to learn real words
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as in to blather
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Recent Examples of blabber
Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
But rather than keep his discover quiet, the OP—much to everyone else's disappointment—blabbered.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blabber
Verb
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Yet in the president’s social media blathering last week came something shocking: an admission that deportations don’t really work.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2025
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As Wharton continues to blather at June, Luke, Rita and a bunch of others move from the back of the crowd to the front.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
20 May 2025
Noun
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The air inside the house is puckered with the images of dead birds on TV; kookaburras, magpies, cockatoos, eastern rosellas, and lorikeets, their wings charred and their small bodies limp, washing up on the coastlines of this continent down under on the righthand side of the map.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 July 2025
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Experts suggest that not all magpies are aggressive.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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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
Noun
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While praised by real-life doctors for being one of the more accurate medical shows, Scrubs still made room for plenty of silly, lighthearted nonsense.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
21 July 2025
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In that case, this is a lot of nonsense over something that just won’t arise.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
Verb
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Two toddlers are also in attendance, babbling and wandering in between the pews.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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When Bruegel babbled on anew about the methane, Negan filled him with the much-ballyhooed gas, then lit him on fire from the inside out.—
Charlie Mason,
TVLine,
22 June 2025
Noun
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And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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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
Verb
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These conversations teach a person how to gab and, perhaps more importantly, how to respond to spicy information.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Chatting with the Oscar winner about her go-to wide-leg jeans (the trend-setter has been going barrel since before the denim style gained mass appeal) was like stepping into that scene in every Nancy Meyers movie where the gals gab about divorce over a buttery chard.—
Brie Schwartz,
Glamour,
27 May 2025
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Despite all the chatter on the outside, inside the ropes of the Bengals’ training camp launch this week, there was just solid work.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
27 July 2025
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And some of the chatter was about Bueckers hard-launching her relationship with her former UConn teammate Azzi Fudd.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
27 July 2025
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“Blabber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blabber. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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