rattle off
phrasal verb
rattled off; rattling off; rattles off
informal
: to say (something) quickly or easily from memory
She rattled off the names of all 50 states.
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Between bites of salad, Trivedi rattled off R.S.S. talking points.
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Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Renard rattles off names of the other players, including her then captain and future Lyon head coach Sonia Bompastor, now in the latter role at Chelsea.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Even before publishing his new historical fiction novel about the revolutionary abolitionist, Harriet Tubman: Love in Concert, out March 25 from Gallery Books, he could be found rattling off facts about her on Ziwe in a clip that immediately went viral.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
With so many open shots rattling off the iron, the Huskies might have been ahead by 15 or 20 instead of five or six in the second half.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2025
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Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Renard rattles off names of the other players, including her then captain and future Lyon head coach Sonia Bompastor, now in the latter role at Chelsea.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
Even before publishing his new historical fiction novel about the revolutionary abolitionist, Harriet Tubman: Love in Concert, out March 25 from Gallery Books, he could be found rattling off facts about her on Ziwe in a clip that immediately went viral.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 24 Mar. 2025
With so many open shots rattling off the iron, the Huskies might have been ahead by 15 or 20 instead of five or six in the second half.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for rattle off
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“Rattle off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rattle%20off. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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