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talebearing

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noun

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Adjective
  • Reading and interacting with students’ original thoughts in class helps teachers understand how students think and articulate.
    Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • That change may look like the ambitious and growing national people’s budgets movement, which brings together local residents and community groups to protest budget cuts on essential services, articulate budget priorities and democratize the budget process.
    Celina Su, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The days were spent in a sleek conference room, where guests gave talks.
    Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Signaling progress in the peace talks, Axios reported that Washington and Tehran were engaged in discussions mediated by some Gulf states for a potential 45-day ceasefire that could end the conflict, although the odds for reaching a partial deal before the Tuesday deadline were slim.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • With further study, Fukasawa’s team hopes to match specific electric signals to corresponding activity within mushroom whisper networks.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Behind every trauma and calamity, whether personal or global, whispers of Jewish machination can be heard by those already listening for them.
    Mike Rothschild, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Petrie, Doz and Morrow play multiple roles, including a gossipy Greek chorus and the band of merry fisherman (truly an astonishing array of Canadian accent work on display).
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In recent years, the game has seen another uptick in popularity—especially with younger players who in prior generations might have been the ones rolling their eyes at their elders’ gossipy game nights—and an increase in controversies.
    Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Their show is a high-energy mix of friendly interviews with tech titans, industry gossip, and celebrations of funding rounds and other successes that involve banging a giant gong.
    Shannon Bond, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Mitchell Fink, whose career as a celebrity gossip columnist and entertainment journalist included stints ranging from People magazine to the New York Daily News to the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, died Tuesday at 82 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • That being said, its professional technical aspects just add to the impression that this is a glib and insincere effort, trying to graft a fun moviegoing experience onto a depressing story about hateful people reveling in each other’s pain.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Actually, tearjerkers, as a genre, are noble, albeit with a lousy reputation and a glib name for what is essentially an empathy machine that’s eager to streamline complicated emotions.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The pile of rock, dirt and low-quality coal began slowly burning two decades ago, according to the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (DRMS).
    Logan Smith, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • By blending emotionally powerful country sonics with red-dirt sound, Bowlin evokes the energy of names such as Jason Isbell, Zach Bryan and the early work of BJ Barham and American Aquarium.
    Chris Barilla, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Ben Steinberg, a 26-year-old film student at Cal State Northridge, has long been a vocal and active proponent of reopening Hollywood’s Cinerama Dome, which has been closed since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Some were axed immediately; others were rewritten and re-recorded, keeping Oli’s voice pure, stripped of the vocal doubling that had been his signature on previous records.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2026
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“Talebearing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/talebearing. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.

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