tittle-tattle

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tittle-tattle
Verb
  • In other words, to blather on about how unremarkable iPhone 16 is compared to the one immediately preceding it completely misses the forest for the trees.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, to blather on about how unremarkable iPhone 16 is compared to the one immediately preceding it completely misses the forest for the trees.
    Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Nevertheless, the animals’ recurring presence throughout the season visualizes the chattering, anxious feeling that governs the existential turmoil endured by many of the souls haunting the Thai White Lotus resort.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • As Melissa chatters away about her dreams, Shauna’s mind wanders.
    Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Details like water overflowing from the bathtub, rain pattering on a window, a phone ringing and a piano playing contributed to the realism of the experience.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • One of the most impressive aspects is a mix of its seasonal and weather systems, with spring buds, fall colors and blanketing snow, mixed with high winds and rainstorms pattering drops on my DualSense controller.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Herr Knock is retreating madly away from the camera, just prattling on, dancing maybe, soulless, gone.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Verb
  • Ahead of the audiobook’s May 7 release, and a promotional tour that Wilson admitted is poised to put their love of chat to the ultimate test, the authors spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about all things gab.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Trump’s tendency to gab meant that minimizing his time on the witness stand was a no-brainer.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • And then, just to troll everybody, the photographer asks them to smush their cheeks together.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • During Monday's match between The Bay Golf Club and Boston Common Golf, LPGA superstar Nelly Korda hilariously trolled Keegan Bradley for his outfit and mustache on Instagram.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Another version is dotted with oily little pepperoni cups and smattered with hot honey: simple and satisfying.
    Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • Lee is also now taking a smattering reps at first base as expected entering the spring.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • The pasture behind the barn is a blur of adolescent goats bleating, bolting, and knocking one another down.
    Scott Clark as told to Betsy Andrews, Saveur, 3 Apr. 2025
  • But one of the show’s most viral clips is much more representative: The veteran SNL writer Jim Downey pretends to have never heard about Jeffrey Epstein’s misdeeds, to O’Brien’s bleating objections.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Tittle-tattle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tittle-tattle. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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