Thesaurus results for BLATHERED (ON)

blathered (on)

verb

past tense of blather (on)

as in rambled

to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point my attention wandered as she blathered on about her endlessly active social life

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Cars lined the streets looking for parking spots as people rambled through the bustling marketplace at Clock Tower Landing.

— Kendrick Calfee June 6, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2026
When asked simple questions by William Savitt, one of the attorneys representing OpenAI, Musk rambled and avoided the issue at hand.

— Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026

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Those drivers’ days (and lives) were rattled far more than those stuck in the backup behind them.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 30 Aug. 2026
His campaign website includes a section dedicated to investing in rural communities, and Talarico has focused on data center policy in recent weeks, holding a roundtable in Abilene on the subject that has rattled the state’s rural residents.

— Eleanor Dearman Updated August 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Aug. 2026

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