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verb

present participle of prate

as in chatting

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

The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of prattle

Verb

And Google was sued this week by the parents of a child who allegedly suffered a psychological crisis after chatting with the Gemini AI chatbot in Google Classroom.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
Riley countered in the government’s final rebuttal, pointing out Birchmore spent her final day searching for baby names and chatting with friends.

— Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of chatting

Noun

And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Companies modelled after Mary Kay that have reprised empowerment babble for their founders’ gain are mentioned but receive scarce judgment.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

Definition of babble

Verb

Democrats are talking more cautiously now, and the party is rooting them on from DC.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Her intentions were made clear in exchanges on social media with Bowden, who harshly criticized Honeycutt for crossing party lines, particularly for talking with Ocasio-Cortez.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of talking

Noun

Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.

— Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Thomas, for all his proprietary yammering about his young wards, turns out to have fatally underestimated them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026

Definition of yammering

Verb

McKenzie and his outfit are usually conversing with agents, advisors, business and wealth managers about who may have capital needs as opposed to individual athletes themselves.

— Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Another image shows Pitt and Debicki conversing at a bar, while a different shot features him on a tennis court with Debicki, Caan and Gugino.

— Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of conversing

Noun

While the Jeter/A-Rod/Big Papi jawing session preempted the usual transmission of commercial messages, the break was conspicuously sponsored by official MLB backer and longstanding World Series patron T-Mobile.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Another clip showed Brown jawing toward Sirianni and being held back by his teammates.

— Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026

Definition of jawing

Verb

Hundreds of millions of people are watching TV and YouTube closely, chattering and analyzing on social media.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2026
The chattering and barking mammals that scamper through these woodlands rely on the pale fluid to grow fast, providing mammal pups with the raw materials to start turning the soft cartilage of their skeletons to more resilient bone.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026

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