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Recent Examples of smatter
Noun
Another version is dotted with oily little pepperoni cups and smattered with hot honey: simple and satisfying. Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023 Glover’s patchwork ethos is smattered across its seven installments. WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023 Lee is also now taking a smattering reps at first base as expected entering the spring. Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023 The movie is smattered with deep focus cinematography, led by the director of photography Jomo Fray. Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2020 During the class, remember to look out at the trees, to the sculptures smattered throughout, to the family of deer that will surely be grazing ahead. Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018 Who’s listening At UCF’s rehearsal hall, the crowd of 50 or so is smattered throughout the seats watching the New Music Ensemble perform pieces written by students. Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018 Groping blindly, European and especially British explorers began trying to map this seascape beginning in the late 1500s – leading to a series of small advances, smattered with setbacks and tragedies, over centuries. Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
Verb
As part of the show, the Design Museum invited artists to create new clock faces; there is also a smatter of Chicago clock history, and recently included, remarkably, the original wooden hands from the Wrigley Building’s clock face, located by Samuelson on eBay. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022 Outside a car wash where two people died, a smatter of small bloodstains can still be seen on the white exterior wall. Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019 The apartment is immaculate—done up in charcoal and silver, with gilded accents and a tasteful smatter of lucite. Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smatter
Noun
  • But only a handful of his nominees have been confirmed by the Senate because of resistance from Democrats.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This new ambassadorship will see Doja Cat, born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, star in a series of global campaigns for the brand, featuring a handful of bestselling products.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The rain was pattering on the windowpanes all night.
    Philip Metres July 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
  • Momoa wore black pants and a black shirt with his hip-length cape featuring a red and yellow triangular pattered.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Sean Duffy and some of the couple’s children were also in the segment, and it was filmed in the New Jersey home.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Ford, an Eagle High School graduate, has had to wait to shine because of a series of injuries over the past couple of years.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Erinys doesn't prate about democracy or social betterment but simply guards oil pipelines.
    Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 July 2004
Verb
  • Yet in the president’s social media blathering last week came something shocking: an admission that deportations don’t really work.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
  • As Wharton continues to blather at June, Luke, Rita and a bunch of others move from the back of the crowd to the front.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • But rather than keep his discover quiet, the OP—much to everyone else's disappointment—blabbered.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • As André Van Peteghem, Dumont cast Fabrice Luchini, whose dialectical extravagance and theatrical exuberance lend his character, a blithering sybaritic fop, the pathos of a physical infirmity matched by the physical comedy of the accident-prone.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2017
Verb
  • But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
  • For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.
    New York Times, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018

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“Smatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smatter. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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