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friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
at the corporate get-together we made the obligatory small talk with some people from the home office
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Recent Examples of small talk
All in all, Southern small talk rules are a fickle thing to follow.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Salon small talk Paqueta’s close relationship — and conversations — with his mother, Christiane Tolentino, became a point of interest in the case.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
After a bit of small talk, the streamer walked over to the back of the room to an enormous figure hidden with a black cloth draped over it.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Skip the small talk, start the party.
—PC Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
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Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Salon small talk Paqueta’s close relationship — and conversations — with his mother, Christiane Tolentino, became a point of interest in the case.
—Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
After a bit of small talk, the streamer walked over to the back of the room to an enormous figure hidden with a black cloth draped over it.
—Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Skip the small talk, start the party.
—PC Magazine, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for small talk
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In the aftermath, authorities retrieved thousands of chat logs linked to Gendron off of Discord, which were written in the form of an online diary and dated over a stretch of several months.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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Jain also confirmed that Garcia's testimony is accurate and only her legal team can currently access Sewell's last chats.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
17 Sep. 2025
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The telephone talks come as the world’s two biggest economies seek to find a compromise on tariffs.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Poland has said that Russian drones attempted to violate its airspace again, only days after another encroachment prompted Warsaw to call on NATO to hold urgent security talks.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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My senses sharpened, my breath slowed, and the chatter in my head went quiet.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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After plenty of chatter, Thug is attempting to finally control his narrative and the reclamation of the Atlanta rapper is on.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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Each monthly box includes three recipe guides, skill lessons, a kitchen tool, a kitchen project, an apron patch, table talk cards, and a grocery list.—
Jessica Booth,
Parents,
16 Dec. 2024
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Almost everything about Thanksgiving, from travel to table talk about politics, has the potential to become fraught.—
Kendra Nordin Beato,
The Christian Science Monitor,
26 Nov. 2024
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“Small talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small%20talk. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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