1
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the two friends can blab for hours on the phone
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2
as in gossiping
to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature
he blabs a lot, so never share a secret with him
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Recent Examples of blabbing
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
Don’t say that your generic generative AI instantiates professional quality therapy, such as brazenly blabbing so in your marketing materials.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blabbing
Verb
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The unusual love story began when Wika started chatting with Kasper, an AI designed to simulate human conversation and companionship.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Ratajkowski appeared in the background of one photo, seemingly chatting with Butler.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Nancy and Minh are there too, but primarily to set up Peggy’s consternation that her neighbors, along with the rest of Rainey Street, have become a bunch of phone addicts hiding behind their Ring cams and gossiping on the Neighbors app instead of interacting face to face.—
Genevieve Koski,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Steve Carell stars as the would-be villain with a heart of gold, Gru, leader of the babbling Minions.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Trump, too, has inexplicable lapses of babbling and has fallen asleep at inauspicious moments.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2025
Verb
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Most of the clientele were families of Asian tourists, talking neither to us nor among themselves.—
Joe Joyce,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Then a production assistant — a famously low-paying, entry-level job on film and TV sets — McGuirk happened to be near the camera operator, who was talking on the phone, when a colleague radioed to ask him to attend a rehearsal.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Upon conversing with generative AI, the AI might agree with them that their suspicions are probably correct.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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McLaren and her team work on residential and commercial projects nationwide, incorporating an artful blend of styles and plenty of surprising details, from bold wall conversing to unexpected color palettes.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The poem conjures up images of a family dinner being prepared, the orchard itself wrapped in the comforting hum of bees, the chattering of young girls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.—
Jennifer Rubin,
Washington Post,
16 July 2024
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“Blabbing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blabbing. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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