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gibber

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noun

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Recent Examples of gibber
Verb
But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023 For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight. New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018 Or is Tucker Carlson the exact opposite of a journalist and his broadcast the Platonic ideal of gibbering insanity? Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018 In issue two, Chang wanders around gibbering like a raw-meat lunatic while his skin tries to escape the little girl, who's keeping it as a pet. Maurice Martin, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2002
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gibber
Verb
  • Both have stellar amenities, space, and sit next to one another on a babbling creek.
    Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Seeing her daughter in that state, babbling nonsense and barely able to stand, Letizia had goggled with the watery eyes of a sickly old lady.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • Visitors are immediately greeted by a large living area, filled with plenty of spaces to sit and chat with others.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
  • However, OpenAI says advertisers do not receive your conversations, chat history or memories.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The nonsense began last year as a stunt tied to a cryptocurrency group, but more recently has been linked to groups protesting league policies.
    Greg Cote August 23, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2026
  • This nonsense with Canada should have never gone into effect.
    Ian Thomas, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • There was something that got a lot of people chattering in the world of math.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Some were already chattering about hitting Angine de Poitrine’s two nights at the Wiltern in December.
    Josh Martin, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
  • Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Beyond the seating area is the hotel shop with a vibrant range of pottery to drool over.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.
    Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Out beyond the shore, the sky had turned a wash of pink and gold—a celestial curtainfall soundtracked by the thwack of a snare drum, and the mellifluous burble of yet another pint being poured.
    Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The Web is for unvarnished interactions, long rants and video burbles and buffering.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 18 July 2025

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“Gibber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibber. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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