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as in talks
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 conversations
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 converses
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 chatters
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 chats
Katie Paul, USA Today, 13 May 2026
For Miller that means more chats with Popovich, who remains at 77 the club's president of basketball operations despite suffering a stroke in November 2024.
—Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2026
Törnberg identified three new kinds of emerging online media platforms, starting with private or semi-private group chats like WhatsApp.
—ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
Inside Old Trafford, the chats continue on the concourse.
—Chris McKenna, New York Times, 4 May 2026
Newman had met the girl three months earlier on an app called Skout, which allows users to meet people from around the world through livestreams and chats, prosecutors said during Newman's first court appearance.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026
Join us for a warm, welcoming gathering filled with meaningful chats, laughter, and connection.
—Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
Few details about the chats have been made public so far.
—Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Both ChatGPT and OpenAI's coding product, Codex, have been gaining wide-scale adoption and can handle sensitive details, including users’ personal chats and confidential work projects.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
Honey Cooper chats with Professor Nader Gergis before attending his class on Wednesday.
—Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Host Mary Louise Kelly chats with national security correspondent Greg Myre and books and culture reporter Andrew Limbong about some of their favorite books and authors in the world of espionage fiction.
—December 29, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
Gathered around the couch, in a spacious living room soundtracked by hushed jazz piano, her little sister disassociates with headphones while her pops casually chats to her stepmother; observing from a wheelchair is her 94-year-old great-grandmother.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
According to a company website, messages people share with Meta AI may be used by the social media company to improve its AI models, but personal chats on WhatsApp remain protected by end-to-end encryption and are not accessible for that purpose.
—Katie Paul, USA Today, 13 May 2026
For Miller that means more chats with Popovich, who remains at 77 the club's president of basketball operations despite suffering a stroke in November 2024.
—Tom Orsborn, San Antonio Express-News, 8 May 2026
Törnberg identified three new kinds of emerging online media platforms, starting with private or semi-private group chats like WhatsApp.
—ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026
Inside Old Trafford, the chats continue on the concourse.
—Chris McKenna, New York Times, 4 May 2026
Newman had met the girl three months earlier on an app called Skout, which allows users to meet people from around the world through livestreams and chats, prosecutors said during Newman's first court appearance.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 3 May 2026
Join us for a warm, welcoming gathering filled with meaningful chats, laughter, and connection.
—Kris Slugg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
Few details about the chats have been made public so far.
—Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Both ChatGPT and OpenAI's coding product, Codex, have been gaining wide-scale adoption and can handle sensitive details, including users’ personal chats and confidential work projects.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
Rooster star Steve Carell chats about his latest show at HBO's Rooster Emmy FYC Event on April 26 in Los Angeles.
—Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
Honey Cooper chats with Professor Nader Gergis before attending his class on Wednesday.
—Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
Host Mary Louise Kelly chats with national security correspondent Greg Myre and books and culture reporter Andrew Limbong about some of their favorite books and authors in the world of espionage fiction.
—December 29, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
Gathered around the couch, in a spacious living room soundtracked by hushed jazz piano, her little sister disassociates with headphones while her pops casually chats to her stepmother; observing from a wheelchair is her 94-year-old great-grandmother.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chats
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Meanwhile, European governments are assessing the merits of opening talks with Putin.—
Hanna Arhirova,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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Trump is expected to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday for talks covering a wide-ranging agenda, with Iran war, trade, rare earth export controls, and Taiwan among the central issues.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
13 May 2026
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The idea for Vintage Store Day came out of tough conversations about survival.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
15 May 2026
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Mention client conversations naturally, not performatively.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Epstein converses with Summers Larry Summers, Clinton’s Treasury secretary and the director of the National Economic Council under former President Obama, corresponded with Epstein numerous times via email.—
Max Rego,
The Hill,
13 Nov. 2025
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He’s best known at this point either for playing the clownish Jack on Will & Grace or for being the relatively serious one of the three celebrity chatters on his podcast, Smartless.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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The chatter among party elites appears at odds with recent polling in Harris’ favor, including in April’s Harvard Center for American Political Studies/Harris Poll, which showed Harris leading the Democratic field with support from 50% of Democrats.—
Justine McDaniel,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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Student chatter on social media fluctuated between some commenters upset that their tests or assignments would be canceled and others planning beach days in light of the system being down.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Through their discussions, and the essays and stories that they were assigned to write each week, Heidi came to know her students’ pain.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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The Taurus Sun forms a supportive sextile to Jupiter in your 3rd House of Communication, giving negotiations, outreach, and practical discussions unusual traction.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2026
Verb
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There have been sometimes somebody shouts in protests.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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This grand procession of Edmonia’s work is an act of reclamation—a gathering in her name that shouts through stone and into the eons.—
Tyehimba Jess,
ARTnews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Just search The Outside Podcast on YouTube to enjoy these chitchats with your eyes as well as your ears.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Chats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chats. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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