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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With six minutes left in a laugher, Walker, the reigning Super Bowl MVP, had rambled for 173 yards on 23 carries and had scored twice.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of rambled

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So far, these productions have largely escaped disruption, but the riots have rattled film crews and prompted warnings from Hollywood studios’ security departments.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Profitability concerns have rattled the AI trade in recent weeks as revenues coming in from frontier models Anthropic and OpenAI have disappointed analysts.

— Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of rattled

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The Daily Mail reports some major catfighting went on backstage, with many participants green with envy assuming that momager Kris Jenner clinched the deal.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Thousands of California state workers on Wednesday flooded the streets of downtown Sacramento and communities across the Golden State as the largest state worker union — with about 100,000 members — went on strike.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of went on

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The simulations ran on Aurora, Argonne’s exascale supercomputer, using 8,100 computing nodes and about 50,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) per calculation.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
The leasing office ran on a skeleton staff and a hold button.

— Ken Lundin, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of ran on

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