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as in talk
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
short chats between parents and teachers during the school's open house
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as in conversation
talking or a talk between two or more people
a fireside chat between two of America's foremost men of letters
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as in to talk
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the coffeehouse became the favored place to meet friends and chat for hours
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as in to chatter
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
lost in his own world, the toddler chatted happily for hours
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Recent Examples of chat
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
25 June 2026
Have a private chat with Janet.
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Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Kaitlin Clapinski,
InStyle,
23 June 2026
Meanwhile, Stamos mentioned the November 2025 interaction with O'Connell while chatting with Althoff.
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Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 June 2026
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Noun
It’s been really nice to have kind of real chats about real things.
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Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
25 June 2026
Have a private chat with Janet.
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Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
25 June 2026
Verb
Our editors have chatted with reality stars, celebrity makeup artists, fashion directors of some of the biggest retailers, and a slew of dermatologists and podiatrists who always have the best insight.
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Kaitlin Clapinski,
InStyle,
23 June 2026
Meanwhile, Stamos mentioned the November 2025 interaction with O'Connell while chatting with Althoff.
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Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chat
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Trump made the threat on Sunday, even as Vice President JD Vance met Iranian officials in Switzerland for the first talks under the interim accord.
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Still looming over talks, however, is the Israel-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon, which has continued despite a recent renewal of their ceasefire agreement.
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One of Wood’s earliest conversations with Reid centered on abandoning the heeled footwear that helped define earlier versions of the character.
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During the conversation, the individuals attempted to distract the woman by putting jewelry on her.
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This is because any of various chatbots can induce in us an irresistible sense of our conversing with an actual person.
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Her subjects range from the humming of trees conversing through underground fungi to the iridescent call (invisible to humans) that flowers make to fluttering bees.
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The fights were slightly delayed because of inclement weather, and so we were treated, first, to a quartet of chattering analysts wearing natty, snug suits.
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Vuvuzelas honked like a chorus of drunk geese, and spectators chattered excitedly.
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Not to mention that everyone loves a good gossip session.
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But back in 2022, leading up to and following the release of Don't Worry Darling, her second feature in the director's chair, Wilde couldn't make it through a single media engagement without being buffeted by gusts from a maelstrom of rumors and gossip consuming her life.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Syed Asim Munir have departed Islamabad and are on their way to Switzerland where diplomatic discussions between the US and Iran are unfolding, a statement from the prime minister’s office said Sunday.
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Swift showed up in a video clip at the end of the show that circled back to earlier discussion about Kelce’s picky eating proclivities.
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Her longtime bestie Abigail Anderson, whom Swift shouted out in her 2008 album Fearless, tied the knot for the first time in September 2017.
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He was shouted out by multiple fighters following victories.
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If this is true, the anonymous e-mailer, who worked at Domino’s with Webb, had inflated a report of some harmless chitchat between Crosby and her tenants into an actionable violation of jurors’ instructions not to discuss the case.
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For decades, late-night TV has introduced trailblazers trying to break, or reinvent, the staid routine of stand-up monologues and celebrity chitchat.
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“Chat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chat. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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