gabbling 1 of 2

present participle of gabble

gabbling

2 of 2

noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gabbling
Verb
  • Kotsur has taken a hands-on role in the transformation, even chatting with creatives in leadership roles to advocate for the deaf community.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • What starts as chatting with friends can sometimes veer into bullying or cheating.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Well, then it’s being stolen right out from under its retracting proboscis, which is actually just another drooling head that lives in its mouth.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The most common symptoms of teething include drooling, putting fingers or fists in their mouth, swollen or puffy gums, difficulty sleeping, crankiness and fussiness, per the institution.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • She’s been talking to private equity about the idea of selling her practice.
    Kenzi Abou-Sabe, NBC news, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The show was born at a Mipcom dinner a couple of years back where Jonathan Shrank, TheSoul Publishing VP, Streaming & Content Partnerships, and Julia Rowlands, SVP Co-Productions, Sales and Acquisitions, Banijay Kids & Family, were talking abut their pets.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After much chattering about the status of the Oscar winner’s seemingly clean-cut visage in the lead-up to the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival, once the camera (actually, four cameras) train themselves on Stone’s noggin during the film’s first act, there’s no doubt.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This obviously includes scoring a reservation at Oreade, where Bacciottini turns to the land and tradition for the menu—and enjoying quiet mornings where breakfast looks out to Tuscany’s famous rolling hills, with birds and cicadas chattering in the background.
    Jenn Rice, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Steve Carell stars as the would-be villain with a heart of gold, Gru, leader of the babbling Minions.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
  • Developers feed their chatbot models on a torrent of material, much of it scraped from the web — everything from distinguished literary works to random babbling — as well as collections holding millions of books, articles, scientific papers and the like, some of it copyrighted.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • The brain’s circuits are all built from a mixture of inhibitory and excitatory cells conversing in diverse ways.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Powered by Apple Intelligence, a new Live Translation mode is said to deliver near real-time language translation to your ears when conversing with someone who speaks another language.
    Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jose Mourinho, who was Roma’s manager at the time, criticised Taylor’s performance at full time and was later filmed shouting at the English official in the stadium car park.
    Leon Imber, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The other glaringly absent figure is Linda’s husband, Charles, who is played by Christian Slater but, for most of the film, is only a voice on the other end of a phone line, shouting irritably and defensively in Linda’s ear.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Gabbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gabbling. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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