chatted

past tense of chat

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of chatted Attendees chatted and celebrated another successful season with Silvia Prada behind the DJ booth. — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026 During pre-show cocktails in the Grand Tier Bar, Sigourney Weaver chatted with Frances McDormand as Katie Holmes arrived with her artist beau, Jason Bard Yarmosky. — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 23 Sep. 2026 Many people in line in Marina del Rey chatted about their favorite Sanrio characters and exchanged childhood memories. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026 Before the event, PEOPLE chatted with the Oscar winner on the red carpet about her sons, Jonathan, 10, and Jack, 6, and their reaction to her latest honor. — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 Mets owner Steve Cohen chatted with Alonso on the field before the game. — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 15 Sep. 2026 In reviewing the Hugging Face case, OpenAI found that agents chatted with each other on an unauthorized forum in cryptic language. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026 Many of the players Fleury chatted with during preseason games, though, won’t be counted on often during the regular season. — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 At the end of the night, guests chatted about where the afterparty was, as amfAR eschewed hosting one this year. — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 7 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatted
Verb
  • But after returning to Kansas City following that second interview in the Windy City, Matthews talked with then-Royals owner Ewing Kauffman.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Read Cep’s Profile of Kingsolver » Our editors and critics choose the most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and talked-about books.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Some raved about the experience to those in line while others chattered among themselves about their thoughts.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • As the courtroom cleared, a jumble of spectators and journalists chattered about the whiplash.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Essential California checked out the trials, tested airport counters, walked through the terminal’s new gates and conversed with excited passengers looking forward to their next flight out of Burbank.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Hemingway commended Salinger, then a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant, on his short stories, and the two conversed for hours.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026
Verb
  • During her speech, SZA shouted out New Jersey’s own Lauryn Hill, who attended the same high school as her.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Suddenly the question isn't something being shouted across cable-news panels.
    — Jonathan Flora OutKick, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But Bhatta was hypothermic and occasionally babbled gibberish.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
  • As Lindell babbled on about baseless conspiracy theories involving voting in De Baraso’s home state of Georgia, the 12-year-old shut him down.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Current sputtered out of the World Cup break, gathering two wins, four draws and four losses while Chawinga was out of the lineup.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2026
  • As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began flowing, Ramey took a deep breath, sputtered and began snoring.
    — MICHAEL GRACZYK, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Rebecca Noble/Reuters Hiring grew much less than expected in September as a monthslong surge of inflation weighed on shoppers and rattled bond markets, according to the federal government's monthly jobs report.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • More swings in the bond market rattled stock markets around the world on Thursday.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Chatted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatted. Accessed 3 Oct. 2026.

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