pattering

verb

present participle of patter
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation the toddler pattered on for what seemed like hours

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Recent Examples of pattering The interview was interrupted multiple times because of rain pattering against the barn roof where it was being held. — Emily Chang, ABC News, 7 June 2026 Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pattering
  1. chatting
  2. talking
  3. conversing
  4. chattering
  5. rattling
Verb
  • In the video, the popular streamers Maya Higa and FaZe Adapt sit together on a log, chatting nonchalantly as a massive grizzly bear lumbers toward them.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Google’s video showcasing this option sees the user using Chrome on a phone, where chatting with a chatbot might be easier.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of chatting
Verb
  • When families of the Lincoln’s sailors started talking with reporters, their complaints were met with contempt from the top.
    — Andrea N. Goldstein, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Taken with each other, Celine agrees to continue talking with Jesse in Vienna before his morning flight.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of talking
Verb
  • But there’s something else Sirianni realized in conversing with the chatbot.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Residents can still bask in the sunshine over dinner but feel secluded when conversing with one another.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2026
Definition of conversing
Verb
  • There was something that got a lot of people chattering in the world of math.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Some were already chattering about hitting Angine de Poitrine’s two nights at the Wiltern in December.
    — Josh Martin, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of chattering
Verb
  • The song was a frenetic evolution of Brooklyn drill—the grimy, bone-rattling subgenre of hip-hop popularized by Bobby Shmurda—and its instrumental by the British producer 808Melo gave it a brash East London bounce.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The blockade choked one of the world’s most important shipping lanes and Iran dictated where the war’s frontline would be, rattling the global economy.
    — Justin Fishel, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of rattling

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“Pattering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pattering. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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