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verb

present participle of prate

as in chatting

to engage in casual or rambling conversation the young executive gratingly prated on about his weekend hobnobbing with the rich

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Noun

The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026

Definition of prattle

Verb

Times columnists Gustavo Arellano, Steve Lopez and Lorraine Ali are chatting about Tuesday night’s Los Angeles mayoral debate between Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman.

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
The challenge will include multiple phases, including a concept design, concept refinement after chatting with reviewers, and then a final selection.

— Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026

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And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.

— Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Companies modelled after Mary Kay that have reprised empowerment babble for their founders’ gain are mentioned but receive scarce judgment.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

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Verb

That level of pure confidence while talking to the person with cold, hard footage is what makes Lisa Barlow the perfect Real Housewife.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
There are so many more interesting things than listening to a bunch of Flock employees talking on a wireless microphone with radio.

— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of talking

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Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.

— Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Thomas, for all his proprietary yammering about his young wards, turns out to have fatally underestimated them.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026

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Mexican security forces, both military and police, were also observed conversing with Border Patrol agents over the international boundary.

— Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2026
In a demo, OpenAI also showed someone conversing with a dot through a phone call.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

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