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Recent Examples of blat
Verb
Crews were blatting the flames to avoid impacts to neighboring businesses.—
Nikiya Carrero,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026 Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected.—
Brett Berk,
GQ,
26 June 2017
By making its pockets oversized and bellowed, the designers of the first cargo pants allowed soldiers to tote grenades, flares and other essential gear in their trousers.
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Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
19 Oct. 2026
John Goodman bellowed from his front porch, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Timbaland’s eerie, minimalist production — stuttering beat patterns, yawning silences between drum hits, synth riffs that bray and heave — was the ideal vehicle for Elliott’s slaloming, heavily syncopated raps.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.