1
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
please do not jabber during the rabbi's sermon
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2
as in drooling
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
monkeys jabbering at each other in their cages
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jabbering
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Moore, even in her 90s, is quite the babbling brook — twinkly and self-possessed, a calm pathological narcissist, the kind of person who spins out her life like a novel, making stories she’s told a million times sound spontaneous.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
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Leon leaned down to inspect how the cement bags were holding up against the babbling water.Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
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The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
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Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
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There is chatter of a break down in the workings of the coalition – the question now is how that might translate into a political event.Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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The signal is not only weakened but also obscured by the chatter of millions of other neurons, reacting to whatever else the pilot happens to be thinking about or sensing.Dana Mackenzie, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Jabbering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jabbering. Accessed 9 Nov. 2024.
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