Thesaurus results for PATTERED

pattered

verb

past tense of patter

as in chatted

to engage in casual or rambling conversation the toddler pattered on for what seemed like hours

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Recent Examples of pattered Big shot guests popped up in the studio audience, including the actors Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Ryan Reynolds, who did a few bits and pattered about the host going off air; Colbert moved through the usual jokes about the day’s news. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026 As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025

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And in 2023, Tierra Whack and Lil Yachty chatted about hip-hop in Brooklyn, before Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane kept the conversation going.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
As the science reporters chatted with Deisseroth over the phone and Zoom, an AP photographer and videographer raced to his home in Stanford.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of chatted

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Essential California checked out the trials, tested airport counters, walked through the terminal’s new gates and conversed with excited passengers looking forward to their next flight out of Burbank.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
Hemingway commended Salinger, then a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant, on his short stories, and the two conversed for hours.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of conversed

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Talking past each other on voting The candidates mostly talked past each other to answer a question about confidence in elections.

— AJC.com, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
The filmmaker talked to Puck‘s Matt Belloni in a wide-ranging discussion that was partially recorded for his The Town podcast.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of talked

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Before landing, a lighter dinner consisting of salad, chicken breast, and vanilla cream with caramel and meringue rattled down the aisle.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
In the video, which appears to have been taken shortly after the attack, Allen showed his bloody face and appeared rattled.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026

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