yada yada
noun
ya·da ya·da
ˈyä-də-ˈyä-də 
variants
or yadda yadda
or yada yada yada
or yadda yadda yadda
: boring or empty talk
listening to a lot of yada yada about the economy
—often used interjectionally especially in recounting words regarded as too dull or predictable to be worth repeating
Examples of yada yada in a Sentence
They had to listen to the usual yada yada about bike safety.
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Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Netflix’s The Night Agent topped Nielsen’s weekly U.S. ranking of streaming originals for a third straight week, yada yada yada….
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 6 Mar. 2025
The show started off with a minuscule six-episode order at NBC (not exactly a vote of confidence) and yada yada yada ended in 1998 with 76 million people tuning into the series finale.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
And then the revival of American Buffalo, that's now a standard contemporary American classic and studied that in drama school and yada yada yada.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 5 June 2024
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“Yada yada.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yada%20yada. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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