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as in chat
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
pleasant chatter over morning coffee
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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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as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
chattered idly while waiting in line
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as in to babble
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
the parrot chatters all day
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Recent Examples of chatter
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
And chatter has been building for months that an activist investor might look to push in at the company.
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Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
18 June 2026
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
25 May 2026
But a chattering bird builds no nest!
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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Noun
There’s been a lot of chatter around New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart and changing his playing style to avoid getting injured in a game.
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Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
And chatter has been building for months that an activist investor might look to push in at the company.
—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
18 June 2026
Verb
While some kids seem to chatter nonstop before age 2, others may take a little longer to find their words.
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Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
25 May 2026
But a chattering bird builds no nest!
—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for chatter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatter
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Despite her dismissal, Keyser appeared in the first 20 minutes of Thursday’s episode, sharing a chat and a kiss with partner Zach Georgiou, and later slept in the bed with him.
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Instead of forcing users into a loud chat sidebar to ask for recommendations, the app uses AI to examine your favorite songs, genres, artists — as well as listeners with similar tastes.
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But residents who live near hyperscale centers have expressed outrage over a range of issues, including health impacts, spiking utility bills, constant noise, dropping water pressure and concerns about potentially losing their land through eminent domain.
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Some carried placards and others banged plates, their noise cutting through the crowd protesting and demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
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Robert, talk me through the thinking behind this framing.
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Seconds later, Hines-Allen decided she was done talking and shoved Bonner.
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In the past, nWave films tended to be all about snappy dialogs and babbling protagonists.
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The teller babbles compulsively about past robberies, spilling details in a rush.
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Not to mention that everyone loves a good gossip session.
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But back in 2022, leading up to and following the release of Don't Worry Darling, her second feature in the director's chair, Wilde couldn't make it through a single media engagement without being buffeted by gusts from a maelstrom of rumors and gossip consuming her life.
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Gratitude on a stage has rarely seemed more palpable than in Williams basking in the glow of the arena roar; here is someone who, in the spirit of Dylan and the actual words of Doe, has been beyond and back.
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Video taken from Vestavia Hills, a community in central Alabama, showed brown floodwater inundating local streets amid the roar of rain.
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This is because any of various chatbots can induce in us an irresistible sense of our conversing with an actual person.
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Her subjects range from the humming of trees conversing through underground fungi to the iridescent call (invisible to humans) that flowers make to fluttering bees.
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Luckily, we will no longer be inundated with responses from these prevalent LLMs that prattle on about mythical creatures.
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Bazzana would prattle on about his cage work, his posture and his attack angle.
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“Chatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatter. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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