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Recent Examples of jabber
Noun
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 Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties. Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024 Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber. Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023 That includes many of his new Florida State teammates who have discovered the defensive end’s propensity for jabber. Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022 Incriminating truths are borne along in the ever-rolling stream of online jabber; how can one man’s toxic underpants, nearly two years old, stand a chance against the slapping of Chris Rock at the Oscars, still less against the waves of disinformation? Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2022 Ohio State strength coach Mickey Marotti is getting in on the jibber jabber with some Michigan staffers in this clip. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2021 To paint like that required a meditative focus that was miles from my own internal jabber. Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2021 An older Black man perpetually annoyed by Sterling and Blair's jabber — particularly about the ups and downs of their romances — Bowser only takes on the underage twins as his protégés because the premise of the show demands it. Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2020
Verb
The first half hour is filled with the weirdly neutral techno jargon of soldiers jabbering code words into their headphones to what I (as a know-nothing) am tempted to call Mission Control. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025 Meanwhile, Trump cannot stop jabbering about serving a potential third term, a blatant violation of the Constitution’s cap on terms Presidents can serve these days. Philip Elliott, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025 Sometimes the most confident and extroverted C-suite representatives turn to jabbering wrecks when a camera is placed in front of them. Nikos Lemanis, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 In our few minutes, Smoltz indulged a couple of jabbering old sports writers. Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2024 Asking Eric: These women jabber about the trip I wasn’t invited on. R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024 Hello Kitty blanket while Gazal jabbered to a wild-haired imitation Barbie doll dressed as a bride. Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024 Sometimes, being a conservative means jabbering about your philosophical views, however rickety, over a plate of overcooked chicken. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jabber
Noun
  • Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.
    David Velasco, Harpers Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • Among her recent videos documenting her conversations on Omegle, a video-chatting app for talking with strangers, the one that performed best featured a man calling her an anti-trans slur (Lee isn’t trans).
    Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • In an exclusive with WWD, Leclerc sat down to chat about his definition of success both on and off the racetrack, working with Constant as his stylist, tapping into his creative side through his new studio and more.
    Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Diners chattered away and ate at the restaurant while wedding guests gathered on the dance floor.
    Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The data also added to chatter about whether a jumbo, half-percentage-point cut could be on the table in September — a conversation Jim Cramer feels is justified.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 7 Sep. 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
Verb
  • The working group held 10 meetings between July and September, and talked to various entities affected or interested.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Home in a comfy chair, holding baby Zakaria, who’s nursing while Mayniel talks.
    Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2025
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, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
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
  • Students should be encouraged to converse with their AI tutor without fear of ridicule for asking questions in class.
    Steve Grubbs, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Perennially delighted and deeply uncool, Tascioni gabbles about the wonders of the city while her interlocutors roll their eyes at her lack of sophistication and taste.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024

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