tittle-tattling

Definition of tittle-tattlingnext
present participle of tittle-tattle
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Verb
  • However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t a ton of noteworthy deals running on the site right this second.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 18 May 2026
  • With the 2022 release of I Love to Lie, the pair hit the ground running on the touring circuit, opening for artists like Wet Leg and beabadoobee.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • But there’s something more than trolling at work, something elemental in the response to Scranton.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • Transducer mounting options include trolling motor mounts, turrets, and manual pole mounts.
    Chad Morgenthaler, Outdoor Life, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • About 20 volunteers stood together around a table with a dozen rifles Thursday morning, drinking coffee, helping each other with their uniforms, chatting and reading newspapers.
    Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • Before the show even begins, Radcliffe can often be found weaving through the crowd at the Hudson Theatre, chatting with audience members to see who might want to join in on the fun.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026
Verb
  • But a chattering bird builds no nest!
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026
  • Tabakis lightly strums and plucks over a glowing drone and chattering birds, offering an ecumenical introduction, a smiling welcome.
    Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • Despite the mothballed plant's handsome brick exterior, inside it's filled with rattling pipes, hazard signs and cockroach carcasses.
    Ishan Thakore, NPR, 20 May 2026
  • This nerve-rattling sequence that leaves three of the Khachaturian men dead is a wrenching depiction of innocent casualties brought down by split-second combat decisions.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Each treatment villa creates a moment—opening up onto a bespoke, private slice of babbling brook and lush jungle, the sounds of which perfectly underscore any massage.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
  • The key to the program is the devices inside the vests, which recognize the pitch of a child speaking or a baby babbling and the pitch of an adult and capture when an adult speaks and a child or baby responds or vice versa.
    Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Their side hustle is sputtering toward some sort of finish line, the Saudi’s Public Investment Fund having pulled the cashflow that made LIV so appealing in the first place.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 14 May 2026
  • Maybe Bryce Eldridge and Jesús Rodriguez can kick-start the sputtering engine?
    Levi Weaver, New York Times, 4 May 2026
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“Tittle-tattling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tittle-tattling. Accessed 26 May. 2026.

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