talker
Americannoun
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a person who speaks, especially one who speaks readily or too much.
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a person who speaks in a specified way (used in combination).
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"Mo is not a big talker, but obviously he's a leader by example. So it's those types of things I'm 100% going to miss," said Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Terms like close talker, yada yada yada and the Soup Nazi are part of the American lexicon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
CBS, the home network of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” announced in 2025 its plans to cancel the late-night talker after more than a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
The character, a compulsive talker whose social manner is as subtle as a leaf blower, poses a tremendous acting challenge, being as intensely annoying as she is mysteriously alluring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
Who would you say are some of music’s great between-song talkers?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
They are infamous trash talkers, unbothered by the rules, as long as they can mess with their opponents’ heads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Bush, a Republican, said in his eulogy: "In a profession that attracts talkers, he was a thinker and a listener."
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025
The Defense Department purges images, biographies and histories that reference the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo code talkers and baseball legend Jackie Robinson.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2025
Our fleet was so big that there were four command ships, each with its own team of Navajo code talkers.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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