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as in talking
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 shouting
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 chatting
The two had spent hours chatting as Shamblin drank hard ciders on a remote Texas roadside.
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Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Had the best time visiting Harvard Business School and chatting with some seriously brilliant minds!
—Staff Author, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
The family sat together in the living room, chatting about their day as Wheel of Fortune played in the background.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
God chatting on a living room set, with a backdrop of arcade games.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
If a child becomes withdrawn, spends long hours chatting privately with a bot or repeats harmful ideas, step in early.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Once created, the AI avatars are game-ready assets, capable of not just chatting with fans, but interacting within apps and games.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
Live commerce, also known as live shopping or livestreaming e-commerce, is a potent mix of streaming, chatting and shopping.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Contestants form bonds and make compatibility decisions while chatting through a wall, eventually getting engaged before meeting face-to-face for the first time.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Had the best time visiting Harvard Business School and chatting with some seriously brilliant minds!
—Staff Author, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
The family sat together in the living room, chatting about their day as Wheel of Fortune played in the background.
—Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
God chatting on a living room set, with a backdrop of arcade games.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
If a child becomes withdrawn, spends long hours chatting privately with a bot or repeats harmful ideas, step in early.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Once created, the AI avatars are game-ready assets, capable of not just chatting with fans, but interacting within apps and games.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
Live commerce, also known as live shopping or livestreaming e-commerce, is a potent mix of streaming, chatting and shopping.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Contestants form bonds and make compatibility decisions while chatting through a wall, eventually getting engaged before meeting face-to-face for the first time.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatting
Verb
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In the next few years, the study says workers will be talking to their phones or laptops, instead of typing, thanks to the explosion of AI.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
7 Nov. 2025
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Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The move seemed to surprise Fallon, who naturally tried to quell her tears by shouting at her.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
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As the speeches began, chaos consumed the day as air horns were blasted, pages from pornographic magazines thrown down from the balconies and white mice released on to the floor, before the ‘nun’ started dancing up and down the aisles shouting comic profanity.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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After reading Wuoronos’ story, Pralle began conversing with her through letters, eventually persuading Wuornos to let Pralle adopt her.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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Sitting with Williams now in meetings, conversing with him over text and stopping him for advice sometimes in the hallways, players are learning from his humanity.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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For the chattering women, by contrast, the tool of power is writing; and for people who were almost certainly illiterate, the writing takes on almost magical characteristics.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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Weiss, the entrepreneurial and opinionated co-founder of The Free Press website, is an irresistible story to the media chattering classes.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CWD can take months to years for symptoms to appear, which could include drastic weight loss, stumbling or lack of coordination, drooling and listlessness.—
Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
30 Oct. 2025
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Naturally, the post attracted over 16,000 comments of women drooling over him.—
Essence,
Essence,
20 Oct. 2025
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In an eventual 57-point Hurricanes victory, Stevenson was balling and jabbering about it, too, to every Wildcats pass catcher within earshot.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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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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Pine, Colorado — As massive granite outcroppings dotted with evergreen trees jutted skyward from the landscape of Colorado’s Southern Rockies on a warm Tuesday morning, the serenity of bird calls and a babbling creek was shattered by a radio call from a park ranger in distress.—
Andi Babineau,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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My husband has been muttering in a loop about tuition, books, food, and transportation to and from home to campus.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
15 Sep. 2025
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He was also heard muttering expletives down the stretch, visibly battling the heat and pressure.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Aug. 2025
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“Chatting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatting. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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