talebearing 1 of 2

talebearing

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noun

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Adjective
  • Jimmy Adams has captained West Indies and been their director of cricket, and is one of the most intelligent and articulate figures in the game.
    Paul Newman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And Keith Siegel, a hostage, himself, for close to 500 days, articulate and healthy, looked beyond the Israeli government for help.
    Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But as Muttaqi went about a public relations blitz in India and held talks with Indian officials, deadly clashes erupted along the Durand Line border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent days.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The banks are discussing an emergency loan backed by Argentine assets, the people said, while cautioning that talks are ongoing and specific collateral is still being ironed out.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The interior aims for a whisper quiet experience with acoustic glass, and features leather seats with heating, cooling and massaging functions.
    Tony Leopardo, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • While the ability to hear a whisper is remarkable, the more essential question is whether the children could understand what was being said.
    Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Waddingham plays gossipy yacht guest Heidi in The Woman in Cabin 10 — but in real life, the actress is focused on being a single mother to her daughter.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • My father also still relished that gossipy story from our neighborhood about a man whose wife left him and took the children and all the furniture.
    Susan Cheever, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What started as the follow-up to D’Angelo’s 1995 platinum debut, Brown Sugar (written and recorded entirely by D’Angelo in his mother’s house in Richmond, Virginia), became five years of study at Soul University, complete with classes, pranks, gossip and equal amounts of discipline and laziness.
    Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • None of it was true, but gossip takes on its own life.
    Jon Landau, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Widely received as a glib rebuttal to concerns about the rising cost of watching games, the commissioner’s quote will undoubtedly linger in the NBA discourse as a new season begins.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
  • As election strategies go, third time lucky might sound a bit glib.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sprinkle cookie crumbs over top of cake to form dirt.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Fumes shot skyward, along with red clay dirt caught in the spewing gas, Charlotte Observer news parter WSOC reported.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Beyond her work on KPop Demon Hunters, EJAE has also written, vocal-directed, and contributed background vocals for various major K-pop artists.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But as college sports enters yet another year of flirting with institutional funds of all sorts—conversations that have drawn vocal pushback from fans, administrators and trustees—I’ve begun to pay close attention to how those in power talk about these deals.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Talebearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talebearing. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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