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blurts

  • present tense form of blurt (3rd person singular).

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“Oh, I failed,” Ferrell says, wiping off the face-sauce as the coaster pulls up to the platform and someone in line blurts, “Are those chicken nuggets?”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

When the little boy in Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” blurts out that the emperor is naked, he says what people already knew.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

“I want to be in a normal place!” she blurts out in one of their last conversations, almost as if she were a musical protagonist about to break into song.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

When the woman at the agency reveals that all mortgage-backed bonds get AAA ratings, she blurts out that if she doesn’t give the banks the ratings they want, they’ll take their business elsewhere.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025

Finally he blurts out, startling me, “The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything...”

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson