tittle-tattling

verb

present participle of tittle-tattle
as in running on

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tittle-tattling
  1. running on
  2. trolling
  3. pattering
  4. chatting
  5. chattering
  6. rattling
  7. babbling
  8. sputtering
Verb
  • What began as an industry of light and illusion had, by the 1940s, become a machinery of control—an empire built on fantasy, running on fear.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
  • That’s what my firm is building, running on our own managers.
    — Simon De Baene, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of running on
Verb
  • Berg suspects that much of it was trolling, but the episode prompted him to change his practices.
    — Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The Rams are now trolling the people who picked them as the Super Bowl favorites before the season began.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of trolling
Verb
  • The interview was interrupted multiple times because of rain pattering against the barn roof where it was being held.
    — Emily Chang, ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Definition of pattering
Verb
  • Some people were chatting outside the church when something sounded like an engine backfiring.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • From there, wine flowed as attendees tucked into filet mignon and sea bass while chatting across large burgundy floral centerpieces.
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of chatting
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
Definition of chattering
Verb
  • Sound quality is also good, with ultra-deep bass rattling your brain on songs that feature it.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of rattling
Verb
  • Our bright, bubbly and babbling toddler might live, but wouldn’t last.
    — Jen Murphy Parker, Flow Space, 28 Oct. 2026
  • At home, Lindsey and her husband, Garret, noticed that Jaxson had stopped babbling, and wasn’t able to walk anymore.
    — Ciara McCarthy October 22, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of babbling
Verb
  • The earliest models could barely get to evening before sputtering out.
    — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2026
  • But the problem is, Miami’s offense kept sputtering most of the game.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of sputtering
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