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blatting

verb

present participle of blat

as in exclaiming

to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling blatted an obscene expletive before biting the dust

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Recent Examples of blatting Crews were blatting the flames to avoid impacts to neighboring businesses. — Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026

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Lyra donned her purple-and-pink mask, exclaiming at the colorful angelfish darting between her legs.

— Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
On a street by the harbor, crowds of people were squinting into the distance, exclaiming every time the whale exhaled.

— Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026

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Getting around interference The biggest technical hurdle in spectrum sharing is interference – what happens when two signals overlap and scramble each other, like two people shouting different things in your ear at the same time.

— Aylin Yener, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
Those who speak a password, released via social media, receive a fake business card, which does mean many a guest is standing there shouting a password at the actor.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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Now he is stood plaintively at the window, looking in at the roaring hearth and the feast, starting Carabao Cup games but getting hooked at half-time with Jamie Gittens and 16-year-old academy kids.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Greengrass knows how to stage action, how to keep this pace roaring, and that makes this film a blast to watch, but also one that feels not just of its time, but of our times.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026

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