as in to ramble
to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point
my attention wandered as she blathered on about her endlessly active social life
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One day in July, Mitchell rambled about his mother’s house when Smart blurted out that Wright lived in the same neighborhood.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026 -
Day trips to Amalfi-style Taormina are well-advised for those who have yet to gawp at its clifftop panoramas across the Mediterranean or its film star hotels, as are jaunts to the rambling flea markets and splendidly scruffy trattorias of nearby Catania.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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Her victory, however, is likely to further rattle China, Japan’s neighbor and biggest trade partner.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Anthropic, one of the more outspoken companies in the artificial intelligence space, rattled stocks with the seeming superpowers of its Claude chatbot, prompting a selloff across the software sector with potential obsolescence suddenly knocking at its door.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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Thousands of nurses still on strike NYSNA said NewYork-Presbyterian nurses reached a tentative agreement with the hospital Tuesday night, but nurses ultimately voted to reject the deal and mediator's proposal, meaning the strike would go on.—
John Dias,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
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The pair went on to work together on several plays, and then during COVID the pair began writing together.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Blather (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blather%20%28on%29. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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