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as in chat
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this
pleasant chatter over morning coffee
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as in noise
loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound
the chatter of the ship's engine kept us awake all night
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1
as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
chattered idly while waiting in line
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as in to babble
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
the parrot chatters all day
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Recent Examples of chatter
Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2025
And there’s plenty of laughs and chatter happening in the cooking class.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
Ryan Lenora Brown, NPR, 13 Apr. 2025
And yet, chatter around being an empath in a more casual context has grown, though the experts aren’t sure exactly why now.
—Tanyel Mustafa, Refinery29, 9 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Earbuds have become the pedestrian’s car stereo, a kind of acoustic Bubble Wrap shielding us from noise or chatter or insults and makes obsolete a once-fundamental New York experience: the casual interaction.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 25 Apr. 2025
And there’s plenty of laughs and chatter happening in the cooking class.
—Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
Vuvuzelas honked like a chorus of drunk geese, and spectators chattered excitedly.
—Ryan Lenora Brown, NPR, 13 Apr. 2025
And yet, chatter around being an empath in a more casual context has grown, though the experts aren’t sure exactly why now.
—Tanyel Mustafa, Refinery29, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatter
Noun
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Any contacts and chats from Skype will automatically appear when users log into the free version of Teams with their Skype credentials.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
4 May 2025
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But, whatever the White House and its most fervent allies insisted at the time, the Signal chat was a major embarrassment.—
The Editors,
National Review,
2 May 2025
Noun
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That will be a big upgrade just in terms of efficiency, manufacturing, and noise.—
James Morris,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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Living up to his potential is critical in a season in which the offense is as good as any in the game and the team has a chance to make noise throughout the summer and into the fall.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
Verb
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At private dinners throughout Rome and at formal gatherings of hundreds of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has certainly already begun.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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And the competition has become fierce: Never in human history have there been so many people talking to so many other people for public consumption, entertainment or education, on podcasts and panels and personal appearances.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
2 May 2025
Verb
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Saki’s one-year-old, Enzo, is periodically trotted out on Winters’s hip, a sometimes babbling manifestation of everything her character is juggling.—
Laura Regensdorf,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2025
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Worse still, perhaps, at times general-purpose generative AI will produce a heaping of psychobabble, seemingly impressive sounding mental health advice that is nothing more than babbling psychological words of nothingness, see my analysis at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Sources told the gossip site in March that the legal woes weren’t a factor in their choice as their decision was made months before their drama with Baldoni unfolded.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
3 May 2025
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Come for the scene-y details and celebrity gossip, stay for McNally’s genuine self-revelation.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
1 May 2025
Noun
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It's said that March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, but this year, the fierce roar of Mother Nature lasted the entire month.—
Meredith Garofalo,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The roar of the crowd Baxter Springs, Kansas, native Eric Trease said there’s nothing like a UFC crowd.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The auditory processing issues associated with his stroke also seemed to diminish, and Mr. Fetterman began to casually converse with people without having to rely on audio transcription.—
Annie Karni,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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An art thief gets trapped on a job in a high-tech penthouse, and his mental and physical state goes south as months go by, leading the criminal to converse with pigeons, do the Macarena and turn the walls of his accidental prison into an unhinged canvas.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Herr Knock is retreating madly away from the camera, just prattling on, dancing maybe, soulless, gone.—
Wesley Morris,
New York Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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Of course, some are just weird, like the Grampy Turnips, little old vegetable men planted in the soil who prattle on with unsolicited advice that’s occasionally useful and mostly waffle about.—
Josh Broadwell,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2024
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“Chatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatter. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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