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as in rattled
to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point
the teenagers sat around the pizza parlor, rambling on about dating, homework, movies, and the local football team
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as in wandered
to move about from place to place aimlessly
by tirelessly rambling around San Francisco for a week we probably saw more of it than many residents ever have
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as in strolled
to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure
we're planning to ramble all over the highland moors when we're in Dartmoor
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Recent Examples of rambled
During the State of the Union, the top federal employee bullied, bragged and rambled for 107 minutes.
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Milly Dawson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
One day in July, Mitchell rambled about his mother’s house when Smart blurted out that Wright lived in the same neighborhood.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Drew Mestemaker threw for 366 yards and three touchdowns while Caleb Hawkins rambled for 186 yards and four scores on 25 carries.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
His speech was unhinged, often not founded in fact, and rambled badly.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
On the first play of the final period, Bruce rambled in for a four-yard TD for the Eagles.
—Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
After a Southern Utah offsides penalty, graduate student Matt Colombo bounced off left tackle and rambled into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Milly Dawson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
One day in July, Mitchell rambled about his mother’s house when Smart blurted out that Wright lived in the same neighborhood.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Drew Mestemaker threw for 366 yards and three touchdowns while Caleb Hawkins rambled for 186 yards and four scores on 25 carries.
—Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
His speech was unhinged, often not founded in fact, and rambled badly.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
On the first play of the final period, Bruce rambled in for a four-yard TD for the Eagles.
—Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
After a Southern Utah offsides penalty, graduate student Matt Colombo bounced off left tackle and rambled into the end zone for the game-winning touchdown.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rambled
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Spirit Airlines, the scrappy discounter that once rattled the industry with cheeky ads and rock-bottom fares, took its final flight after 34 years of upending the business of flying.—
Bernard Condon,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Her sudden disappearance in 1991 rattled residents of Granite Bay, a suburb of Sacramento where the 35-year-old mother of two had gone to clean her sister’s home, investigators said.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
2 May 2026
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The back parking lot, once a nasty no man’s land where drunken customers wandered off to urinate, has recently been transformed into a performance space that has hosted small gigs including Duane Betts.—
Jimmy Jellinek,
SPIN,
27 Apr. 2026
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But, as Chen and Shrivastava wandered a Texas restaurant conference, a Dallas heating and air company called Rescue Air found them.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Earlier on Sunday, Sai Sudharsan continued his fine form with 87 runs off 46 balls as Gujarat Titans strolled to an eight-wicket win over host Chennai Super Kings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Yet, as throngs of people strolled the three-block downtown on a recent April weekend, past American flag streamers, patriotic bunting and red brick colonial buildings, there was scant visible evidence of that polarization.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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Escaped inmates roamed the streets of New Orleans under the watch of surveillance cameras.—
Patrick Smith,
NBC news,
30 Apr. 2026
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In 2011, a cougar that had roamed the Northland two years earlier was found struck and killed on a Connecticut highway — more than 1,000 miles away.—
Jimmy Lovrien,
Twin Cities,
30 Apr. 2026
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The left-hander allowed two hits, struck out two and walked three in six scoreless innings while improving to 2-1.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Joined by four assistants with umbrellas and eyes on the train, Gaga and Maxwell walked by The Metropolitan Museum of Art with a wagon full of Champagne labeled Haus of Gaga behind them.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
1 May 2026
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By Wednesday’s Game 5 of this first-round playoff series against the Toronto Raptors, the motto had drifted down toward the bottom of the giveaways, and the font size shrank.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Their most familiar neighbor was the occasional manatee that drifted by their home.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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Leaving the Heavener Football Center on Wednesday, Baugh sauntered several hundred yards to his car without a phone in his hands — a rare sight among his fellow students on the UF campus.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2026
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Murphy snapped the shot just as the seraphic straggler picked his head up to get a sense of his bearings, then later sauntered back to rejoin his comrades.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Rambled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rambled. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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