TALEBEARING Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of talebearing

as in articulate

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noun

as in talk

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Adjective

With verbal chops like those, who needs an articulate press secretary?

— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Tyson is at once scary, funny, personable, distasteful, introspective, superficial, articulate and incoherent.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of articulate

Noun

Russia and Ukraine are engaged in talks on ending the plight of people trapped in Oleshky, Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said in an interview with Espreso.

— SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
Her talk focused on being flexible and creative when responding to stress.

— Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of talk

Adjective

Us Weekly, which used to be a quasi-People magazine and very friendly, turned into something totally different and gossipy.

— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
But the gossipy tidbits almost pale next to the eye-opening shadiness of some of the business strategies.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of gossipy

Noun

Monday was a perfect example, when the two biggest drags on the S&P 500 were Nvidia and Micron, but were offset almost to the penny by gains in Apple and Meta, helping the index itself to finish a whisper from unchanged.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Lance Leipold has heard the whispers through the years that perhaps Kansas’ football coach doesn’t place enough emphasis on the yearly Sunflower Showdown against Kansas State.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of whisper

Adjective

That glib self-confidence is present in McNamara, who licks the doughnut glaze off his fingers before offering his hand to the female detective questioning the one living Jason.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
High Maintenance creator and actor Ben Sinclair described in a Substack post an alarming incident that demonstrated Watts’ glib attitude.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of glib

Noun

View this post on Instagram Because of the news of her divorce, the post trickled through the celebrity gossip outlets, and that coverage in turn propagated the post through Google search.

— Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026
His son sees that as a kind of divine verdict on decades of gossip about the pair.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of gossip

Adjective

During a June 11 meeting where the commission reluctantly agreed to put the question on the ballot after a judge ordered them to do so, Gabela was one of the most vocal opponents of the deal, the terms of which date back to 2016 and 2017.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026
As the song unfolds, the drums, lead vocal, background vocals, chord movement and production all play a role in carrying and reshaping it, allowing the sections to feel distinctly different while still remaining tightly connected.

— David Penn, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of vocal

Noun

Video of the attack showed Levine lying on her side on a dirt path with her hands over her face as at least three settlers surrounded her.

— Reuters, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Piles of dirt were placed on tarps, transferred into buckets and carefully sifted under a tent as crews searched for potential evidence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

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