as in rambled
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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Cars lined the streets looking for parking spots as people rambled through the bustling marketplace at Clock Tower Landing.—
Kendrick Calfee
June 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 June 2026 -
When asked simple questions by William Savitt, one of the attorneys representing OpenAI, Musk rambled and avoided the issue at hand.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
18 May 2026
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Helicopters and troops descending upon the Puente Hills Mall rattled Palacios and her daughter, who live a block away from the shopping center.—
Joy Benedict,
CBS News,
6 June 2026
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The Bay Area hotel industry is being swamped by waves of loan defaults, plunging values and foreclosures as the sector seeks to gain its footing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that rattled the worldwide lodging and travel sectors.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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Cooper went on his Instagram account and posted a long Bible Scripture as one of his Stories, which seems, well, strange given the allegations against him.—
Armando Salguero,
FOXNews.com,
8 June 2026
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In War and Peace, Tolstoy’s concept—among a million other things—was to show how the young people who lived through the Napoleonic invasion went on to lead Russia’s first democratic uprising, the Decembrist Revolt of 1825.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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The former hedge fund manager ran on a progressive platform, promising to slash electricity bills by 25%, build 1 million new homes and rollout single-payer health insurance.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
9 June 2026
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Koch left office in 1989, after losing his campaign for an unprecedented fourth term to David Dinkins, who ran on the promise of easing racial tensions.—
Kevin Lozano,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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“Blathered (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blathered%20%28on%29. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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