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Recent Examples of gabfest Among the content coming to Netflix beginning early next year will be The Bill Simmons Podcast, the cinema-nerd gabfest The Rewatchables and The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 Oct. 2025 In the period of late night's rapid expansion, Showtime's gabfest stood out for pure personality and low-key conversational charm. Ew Staff, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022 However, this episode of Window Shop proves boring cars are directly proportional to the chances of a crossfire gabfest. Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 11 Nov. 2022 Now comes the hard part: hosting a global gabfest, without the toxicity. Steven Levy, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021 Third quarter, here’s Bob Myers dropping into the TV gabfest. Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 12 Dec. 2020 Calls can last for up to 24 hours (quite the gabfest), and are encrypted and password-protected. Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 6 July 2020 But there are only so many airings of marbles races, old games and gabfests about the April 23–25 NFL draft—an event that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, feels as significant as a speck of sand—that viewers can take. Sean Gregory, Time, 14 Apr. 2020 What was supposed to be his roommate interview became a gabfest. Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gabfest
Noun
  • Hendrix was elated in her post-dance chat with Hough, even before receiving her stellar score.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Torrez had to review the images and chats personally.
    Charlotte Alter, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There has been chatter that the Tigers would force Kelly to make staffing changes if the team continued to struggle, especially on offense.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Does the subconscious chatter feel louder than usual?
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The best way to silence such talk is on the pitch.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The records obtained by The Star, Kehoe’s internal calendar entries, did not reveal the substance of the governor’s recent talks.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Grace’s asking for help is a big deal, and Kate’s furnishing it with minimal fuss or chitchat is too.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The initial touch marks the transition from regular life—chitchat, logistics, social armor—to the otherworldly realm of the massage, in which mind and body are uniquely harmonized, and some kind of euphoria is achieved.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Gabfest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gabfest. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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