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noun

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Recent Examples of prate
Noun
Erinys doesn't prate about democracy or social betterment but simply guards oil pipelines. Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 July 2004
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prate
Verb
  • Think of it like chatting with a designer about your dream home.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Suge Knight recalled his final moments by 2Pac’s side in September 1996 while chatting from behind bars with People in a story published Tuesday (July 1).
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • And to those working in the U.K. capital’s entertainment industry, this tidbit of insider tattle may not come as a surprise.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2025
  • Sara James has seen a big change in her kindergarteners since welcoming the tattle phone to their classroom Comments A kindergarten teacher is going viral for implementing a longstanding classroom management tool — with a twist.
    Angela Andaloro, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Here to talk more about this is Tax Notes investigations editor Lauren Loricchio.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Through it all, Thune kept talking to Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a moderate Mainer who blanched at the bill’s Medicaid cuts.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The latest gab session was instead devoted to taking questions from the fans — which led to a surprising story about a rock & roll legend.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 18 May 2025
  • And as the resident gossip expert, no one is more equipped to handle the trickiest aspects of gab, even when gossip just might be the villain of the story.
    Kelsey McKinney, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • On Saturday, the protesters clad in Mexico jerseys and waving Mexican, Salvadoran and Honduran flags chanted and conversed mostly in English.
    Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Daboll was conversing at length with defensive coordinator Shane Bowen during Wednesday’s practice, overseeing an individual defensive backs drill and reviewing their plan for the upcoming 7-on-7 periods.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • There was a lot of chatter about taxes and changes to the tax system for colleges.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • Both players are near the top of their respective positions, but there was a lot of chatter regarding Fitzpatrick.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
Verb
  • The result is an entirely incoherent crime thriller that features gangsters prattling on about the self and the ego and the soul and then occasionally wandering into an entirely different scene where other gangsters are prattling on about the same thing.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 27 May 2025
  • One half of a pair of young twins prattles on incessantly about some sci-fi arcana while the boy’s bored-looking mother and his quieter brother tune him out.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The public is simply not buying it and is looking for an alternative. Enough of the twaddle about how voting Democratic is voting to save democracy.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Perhaps News Nation is trying to assume the mantle of Fox News as a dispenser of right-wing twaddle, or (to be more charitable) of CNN as a sober neutral voice.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023

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“Prate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prate. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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