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as in conversing
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the coffeehouse became the favored place to meet friends and chat for hours
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as in drooling
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
lost in his own world, the toddler chatted happily for hours
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Recent Examples of chatting
While chatting about Leila’s wedding plans on Live with Kelly and Mark, the Sisters Loved and Treasured author, 65, revealed that her daughter, 26, plans to wed her fiancé Sylvain Gricourt in two separate ceremonies.
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Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Video shared on social media showed Bell smiling, chatting with fans and taking photos.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Live commerce, also known as live shopping or livestreaming e-commerce, is a potent mix of streaming, chatting and shopping.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Contestants form bonds and make compatibility decisions while chatting through a wall, eventually getting engaged before meeting face-to-face for the first time.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT was, as its name suggests, designed for chatting, and ample research shows that humans bond through communication.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
The pair love spending time together—often just chatting for hours.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Parents can already set time limits on app use and see if their teenagers are chatting with AI characters, Meta said.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
The new episodes, which dropped on Wednesday, picked up right after that Western hoedown with Nick and Annie chatting over late-night Taco Bell.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Video shared on social media showed Bell smiling, chatting with fans and taking photos.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Live commerce, also known as live shopping or livestreaming e-commerce, is a potent mix of streaming, chatting and shopping.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Contestants form bonds and make compatibility decisions while chatting through a wall, eventually getting engaged before meeting face-to-face for the first time.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT was, as its name suggests, designed for chatting, and ample research shows that humans bond through communication.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
The pair love spending time together—often just chatting for hours.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Parents can already set time limits on app use and see if their teenagers are chatting with AI characters, Meta said.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
The new episodes, which dropped on Wednesday, picked up right after that Western hoedown with Nick and Annie chatting over late-night Taco Bell.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatting
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Sitting with Williams now in meetings, conversing with him over text and stopping him for advice sometimes in the hallways, players are learning from his humanity.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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The brain’s circuits are all built from a mixture of inhibitory and excitatory cells conversing in diverse ways.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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Naturally, the post attracted over 16,000 comments of women drooling over him.—
Essence,
Essence,
20 Oct. 2025
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Well, then it’s being stolen right out from under its retracting proboscis, which is actually just another drooling head that lives in its mouth.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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During those visits, Ray and Alex took an interest in dance — getting up onstage with the park’s performers and talking with them after the shows.—
Shannon Pettypiece,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Toddlers and babies especially might especially appreciate a break from their constricting seat, and a change in scenery, by talking a walk up and down the aisles with mom or dad.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
23 Oct. 2025
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With every enemy dead, the familiar sounds of the Halo universe are gone — there’s no Grunts squeaking insults or Jackals chattering in another language.—
Alyssa Mercante,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Who would have thought that in the moments of tension, teeth-chattering anxiety, Tim Skipper would be the one from the Skipper family whose name would be shouted in praise at the Rose Bowl.—
Benjamin Royer,
Oc Register,
19 Oct. 2025
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Then, a man stood up and started shouting at Harris.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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His clips are pretty rudimentary tributes to guys like Thomas Sankara, the former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, shouting them out with highlight reels and songs by 100 gecs and Jersey club collective TwerkNation28.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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My husband has been muttering in a loop about tuition, books, food, and transportation to and from home to campus.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
15 Sep. 2025
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He was also heard muttering expletives down the stretch, visibly battling the heat and pressure.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Aug. 2025
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In an eventual 57-point Hurricanes victory, Stevenson was balling and jabbering about it, too, to every Wildcats pass catcher within earshot.—
Dan Wiederer,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Chatting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatting. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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