as in chatter
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
the hall was abuzz with the usual preconvention jangle
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Recent Examples of jangle
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2025
The key organizer mutes the noise of key jangles and can keep keys in a tidy stack in a user’s preferred order.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 May 2025
Words came to my mind that illuminated the images, and the images trailed jangling verbs behind them.
—Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Linda endures a cosmic round of stress, matched by the movie’s hectic jangle of moods and its use of closeups of the overburdened protagonist, whose confines grow smaller as her troubles grow bigger and her fury mounts—a recipe for explosion.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2025
The key organizer mutes the noise of key jangles and can keep keys in a tidy stack in a user’s preferred order.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Verb
In time, Ian started laughing at other things too: stories Eve made up about a cantankerous Russian named Boris, the word debris, pots clanging, keys jangling.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 May 2025
Words came to my mind that illuminated the images, and the images trailed jangling verbs behind them.
—Domenico Starnone, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jangle
Noun
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Out in the hallway, the raucous chatter of teenagers echoed in the halls, and cars honked on the busy street outside to pick them up.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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The container shipping company has been the subject of recent chatter regarding a possible sale.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2025
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The city’s more than 25-year-old parade marched down Crown Valley Parkway Saturday morning, Dec. 13, jingling all the way.—
Heather McRea,
Oc Register,
14 Dec. 2025
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Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Kurt's key takeaways AI chat apps are moving fast, but security is still lagging behind.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams chat from Super Bowl Radio Row in San Francisco.—
Scott Soshnick,
Sportico.com,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Within this narrow range, the singers created an airless intimacy where adjacent tones clanged sharply against one another.—
Emma Madden,
Pitchfork,
21 Dec. 2025
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There was an almost slapstick quality to ball after ball being heaved up, over and over, clanging against the rim or missing it altogether.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Erinys doesn't prate about democracy or social betterment but simply guards oil pipelines.—
Bruce Sterling,
WIRED,
1 July 2004
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Some of those talks have sidelined antitrust chief Gail Slater, who inherited the Live Nation case from the Biden administration but has pursued it toward a trial set for March.—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Pezeshkian, who ordered Araghchi to pursue talks with the Americans after likely getting Khamenei’s blessing, also wrote on X on Sunday about the talks.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
Verb
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While both syndromes cause numbness and tingling, only thoracic outlet syndrome causes the hands to become cold due to a lack of circulation.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Michael Lynch, 62, went to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist in Park Slope earlier this month with his wife, hoping to diagnose pressure in his head and tingling in his hands, his spouse told the Daily News.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Jangle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jangle. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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