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burbled

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past tense of burble

as in gibbered

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Around the family, people shared takeout dinners, swung on hammocks and chattered.

— Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
The youthful musicians chattered away like creatures of the Transylvanian night.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

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Flow Space chatted with two leading experts about the best ways to keep your eyes healthy in midlife and beyond.

— Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 22 July 2026
Anne also met with South Korea’s president Lee Jae Myung and chatted with members of the K-pop group NMIXX, who joined the Princess Royal for a reception at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 19 July 2026

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Germany, which represents the EU’s biggest economy and export market, has waffled over hitting China with sanctions or duties, worried about retaliatory measures.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 18 June 2026
But as Topuria protested and the doctor waffled, Goddard and the UFC ruled the bout would continue.

— Mark Puleo, New York Times, 15 June 2026

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Big shot guests popped up in the studio audience, including the actors Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Ryan Reynolds, who did a few bits and pattered about the host going off air; Colbert moved through the usual jokes about the day’s news.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026
As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025

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She was cast as Athena, the class ‘troublemaker’ was Odysseus, and the school’s headmaster bumbled around, one-eyed, as the Cyclops.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Except this time, the keeper’s save bumbled forward out of his hands and the ball dropped to Mikel Merino, who came to Spain’s rescue yet again.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 10 July 2026

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