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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
Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
The end of the Main Street bankruptcy process at the start of 2025 led to a little less public chatter about the health of the stations this past year and in the early days of this offseason — despite plenty of skepticism MLB offered in court about Main Street’s go-forward plan.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Alex Ross, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
As the fourth iteration of the BravoCon fan convention kicked off in Las Vegas on Thursday night, thousands of women, and some men, poured into the PH Live Theater lobby at Planet Hollywood bubbling with excitement, chattering and dressed to the nines.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
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Noun
But lately, his occasional pro-immigrant chatter has quieted.
—Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
The end of the Main Street bankruptcy process at the start of 2025 led to a little less public chatter about the health of the stations this past year and in the early days of this offseason — despite plenty of skepticism MLB offered in court about Main Street’s go-forward plan.
—Evan Drellich, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
The doctor himself is characterized sometimes by boisterously chattering lines, sometimes by semi-Wagnerian bombast; at the end, his music turns elegiac, implicitly undercutting his dreams of beginning anew.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
As the fourth iteration of the BravoCon fan convention kicked off in Las Vegas on Thursday night, thousands of women, and some men, poured into the PH Live Theater lobby at Planet Hollywood bubbling with excitement, chattering and dressed to the nines.
—Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatter
Noun
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Join our live chats or ask a question in advance.—
Karen Tumulty,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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It’s required to access the chat function.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Integrated linear actuators provide high power density with low noise, supporting stable, agile, and coordinated whole-body movement.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Jan. 2026
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There are two immutable truths that govern the NFL playoffs — unwritten rules that cut through the noise of EPA models and talking-head bluster.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Brandon asked her out the next day, and the pair spent hours talking on a Ferris wheel during their first date.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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People with respiratory viruses who have high-risk conditions or who live in households with high-risk individuals should talk to their healthcare professional about taking antiviral medications to treat the virus or prevent transmission.—
Jack Perry,
The Providence Journal,
8 Jan. 2026
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Encouraged to see Jones sorta respond, Mackie kept babbling on and on and on about his dad, unaware that everyone else in the room was cringing.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
25 Oct. 2025
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Ebony’s daughter could babble, her words carried the rhythms of more than one language.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
13 Oct. 2025
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This gossip could not be further from the truth.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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The story was first reported by Hollywood-centric social media gossip account Deuxmoi.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
7 Jan. 2026
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An onboard synthesizer manipulates a small set of core sounds to mimic everything from the roar of a jet plane to the flushing of a toilet through a little speaker in the Brick.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Jan. 2026
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The people want to see Varang’s fierce roars!—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2026
Verb
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One summer day, Joe O’Donnell conversed with his wife and daughter inside a gazebo overlooking a small lake, taking a midday break from running their horse boarding facility, Irish Acres.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2026
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When the Museum is Closed is about a part-time, lonely museum worker, Rika Horauchi, whose job is to converse with a statue of Venus—in Latin—on Mondays, when the museum is closed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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The father, Man, prattles on about mowing the lawn, painting the fence, and managing their orchard’s irrigation, while the son periodically falls off his chair from boredom.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 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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“Chatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatter. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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