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verb

present tense third-person singular of prate

as in chats

to engage in casual or rambling conversation the young executive gratingly prated on about his weekend hobnobbing with the rich

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noun

plural of prate

as in babbles

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Shuenemeyer regularly chats with other arborists from Maine to Washington, looking to identify and catalog historic varieties of apples.

— Kevin Strong, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Some of the German Telegram chats date back to at least 2020, court documents show.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of chats

Noun

Savvy Mercury also makes its debut in Scorpio, trading small talk for deep and slightly interrogative conversations, because this Water sign doesn’t do surface-level.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026
The perfect way to decompress in between all the fashion show small talk!

— Irene Kim, Vogue, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of small talk

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Jack Wolf Westwood Lincoln Riley talks a big game about excelling in the Big Ten, but in losing badly to Oregon and its backup quarterback, USC probably couldn’t win the Pac-12 this year.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
An agent that confidently approves the wrong payment, escalates an unstable interaction or quietly talks a user into a bad decision belongs in a different category.

— Puneet Gaur, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of talks

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When the table talk turns political, Hagains suggests shifting your approach instead of your mood.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Nov. 2025
Each monthly box includes three recipe guides, skill lessons, a kitchen tool, a kitchen project, an apron patch, table talk cards, and a grocery list.

— Jessica Booth, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024

Definition of table talk

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Entire product categories that were barely imaginable in 2020 are now weekend projects such as a tutor that converses in Mandarin, a paralegal that drafts and redlines, and a designer that produces forty variations before lunch.

— Michael Wee, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Epstein converses with Summers Larry Summers, Clinton’s Treasury secretary and the director of the National Economic Council under former President Obama, corresponded with Epstein numerous times via email.

— Max Rego, The Hill, 13 Nov. 2025

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