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as in chatter
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
short chats between parents and teachers during the school's open house
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as in conversation
talking or a talk between two or more people
a fireside chat between two of America's foremost men of letters
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as in to talk
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the coffeehouse became the favored place to meet friends and chat for hours
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as in to chatter
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
lost in his own world, the toddler chatted happily for hours
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Recent Examples of chat
Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 May 2025
The download restrictions that are part of the restricted view protections were circumvented, and the content of the Copilot chats could be freely copied.
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
The woman saw a friend of hers and went up to chat with her in the SUV, court documents said.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
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Noun
Others Variety spoke with suggested that marketing dollars are being funneled into more democratized audience platforms like TikTok (that app landed Cruise in person for a fireside chat in Cannes on Tuesday).
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 May 2025
The download restrictions that are part of the restricted view protections were circumvented, and the content of the Copilot chats could be freely copied.
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Verb
As musicians strummed and crowds chatted around the stone cistern, Ioanna Stroumpouli, Hydrogoios’s co-owner, and Tassos Lagadianos, its caretaker, proudly showed off the building’s antique features.
—Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
The woman saw a friend of hers and went up to chat with her in the SUV, court documents said.
—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chat
Noun
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Much of the chatter leading up to the series has centered around the reception Soto will receive from the Yankees faithful.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2025
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The lounges sway to their usual rhythm of excited chatter, clinking glasses and former players recalling their eras.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
Noun
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My biggest goal with this film is to start conversation.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
18 May 2025
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During the conversation, Brady revealed that contestants would sometimes show up drunk or high while attending tapings of the popular CBS game show.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
18 May 2025
Verb
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Hamas talked to the United States and Egyptian and Qatari mediators to arrange the release of Alexander, and Israel has sent a team to Doha to begin a new round of talks.—
Nidal al-Mughrabi,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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Most Americans still live in places with fluoridated water, but if your child’s water supply is not fluoridated, professional associations of dentists and pediatricians recommend talking with your health care providers about fluoride supplements to help ward off dental decay.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
14 May 2025
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Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.—
Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
17 May 2025
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In a separate post, Cabrera shouted out some teammates who came and visited him in the hospital overnight.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2025
Noun
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Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Maeve extends an olive branch in this week's episode of MobLand, which arrives on Paramount+ this Sunday, May 18.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
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Note to Leaders: Put a moratorium on secrets, myths, and gossip.—
Chip Bell,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Liv Hewson ended up wearing the pink converse sneakers.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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The chatbot converses with patients while simultaneously reviewing their medical records, then generates a ranked list of diagnoses and makes recommendations, such as for prescription drugs or lab tests.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Sometimes the most confident and extroverted C-suite representatives turn to jabbering wrecks when a camera is placed in front of them.—
Nikos Lemanis,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The first half hour is filled with the weirdly neutral techno jargon of soldiers jabbering code words into their headphones to what I (as a know-nothing) am tempted to call Mission Control.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The extensive, sharp-pointedly aphoristic high-society chitchat, the very soul of theatre, threatens real-life consequences.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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This includes a lawyer, who will reply to social messages and even gossipy chitchat from their work account.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Chat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chat. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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