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as in chat
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
pleasant chatter over morning coffee
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2
as in noise
loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound
the chatter of the ship's engine kept us awake all night
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1
as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
chattered idly while waiting in line
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2
as in to babble
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
the parrot chatters all day
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Recent Examples of chatter
Staff, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
However, leagues must recognize that not every bit of chatter is equally valuable.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 17 June 2025
Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The chattering motion involved the lower beak snapping about 12 times per second.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
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Noun
Much of the chatter following the Indiana Fever's win over the Conneticut Sun on Tuesday centered around a pair of scuffles, one of which resulted in Caitlin Clark getting poked in the eye.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
However, leagues must recognize that not every bit of chatter is equally valuable.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 17 June 2025
Verb
That’s all Joe can think about, even while Henry’s chattering about his sessions with therapist George, and especially while Kate’s giving him the cold shoulder.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
The chattering motion involved the lower beak snapping about 12 times per second.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatter
Noun
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Cox internet customer service Contact Cox customer service or check on a Cox internet outage via phone, text or online chat.—
Kara McGinley,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
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As mentioned above, your chats and inputs to generative AI are likely discoverable at this point to determine whether generative AI was used to create invention scope beyond what was disclosed by the original human inventors.—
Wen Xie,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Noun
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Walden injected a bit of noise into his playing style with the group, citing guitarists J Mascis, Thurston Moore, and Jimi Hendrix as influences.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
23 June 2025
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Yufei Long, who hails from Shenzhen, China and came to the US to play top-level Tennis, also made some noise here, qualifying and then taking out No. 21 Blatt and No. 14 Schaefer before stretching No.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Verb
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Here to talk more about this is Tax Notes investigations editor Lauren Loricchio.—
Tax Notes Staff,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Sucked underground by an explosive whirlwind, DK must team up with a talking mineral named Odd Rock to prevent VoidCo from reaching the planet’s core, where legend says something has the power to grant wishes.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
1 July 2025
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Yet the sequel also arrived the year after the first election of Donald Trump, a figure seemingly drawn from Lynch’s menagerie of babbling weirdos.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2025
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Billy, born in a television episode airing this spring, quietly babbles as Sedona, 4 and precocious, manages her younger brother Liam, 2.—
Hunter Harris,
Vulture,
5 May 2025
Noun
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Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors A fan-favorite game turned the villa upside down last night as the islanders got one another's pulses pounding in the heart-rate challenge.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Refreshingly, there’s no talk of politics, religion, sports, finance, world news, or gossip.—
Thomas Cangelosi,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2025
Noun
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The Dino up for sale is a 246 GTS variant with a removable roof panel for when the sun is out and the driver wants to really hear the roar of its engine.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
24 June 2025
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Advertisement Read more: How Netanyahu Pushed Trump Toward War That day, a shepherd posted cell phone footage of an Israeli C-130 low in the sky over Syria, sheep bells clanking over the roar of the engines.—
Karl Vick,
Time,
19 June 2025
Verb
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The investment firm has launched the GS AI Assistant, an AI program that will let workers across its divisions converse with large language models that are firewalled within Goldman, ideally eliminating the threat that sensitive data could escape into the wild.—
Chris Morris,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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The filmmaker puts a whimsical twist on a rather dark tale by having that flower converse with Akutsu, who tells it the story of his life before imprisonment.—
Kambole Campbell,
Variety,
12 June 2025
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The result is an entirely incoherent crime thriller that features gangsters prattling on about the self and the ego and the soul and then occasionally wandering into an entirely different scene where other gangsters are prattling on about the same thing.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
27 May 2025
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One half of a pair of young twins prattles on incessantly about some sci-fi arcana while the boy’s bored-looking mother and his quieter brother tune him out.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
23 May 2025
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“Chatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatter. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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