pattering

present participle of patter

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pattering
Verb
  • Contestants form bonds and make decisions about compatibility while chatting through a wall, eventually getting engaged before meeting face-to-face for the first time.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There's a lot of laughing and chatting between us.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These parables sometimes read like gibberish, talking both down and up to the reader.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • And its representatives are talking a big game about making the country a wellspring of world-class AI companies.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Oct. 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Norwood is just the latest example of the AI threat that rattling the TV and film industry.
    Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Across the past decade, HARDY has become one of Nashville’s most prolific, versatile voices, a songwriter and artist who can put forth a twangy country anthem as easily as a bone-rattling rock song.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Pattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pattering. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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