as in chats
friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this a bit of chitchat over lunch with people we hadn't seen in a while
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Recent Examples of chitchats Just search The Outside Podcast on YouTube to enjoy these chitchats with your eyes as well as your ears. —
Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2026
Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2026
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Welcome to The Girls, where Khloé Kardashian’s inner circle of real-life besties are raising babies, running businesses, and surviving brutally honest group chats.— Peter White, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2026
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Gray often sends draft videos to both his family’s and Blackstone team’s group chats for review.— Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
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Pakistan, which has acted as an intermediary between Washington and Tehran, has urged both sides to sit down again for a new round of direct talks after brokering the first ceasefire agreement in Islamabad in early April.— CBS News, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Defense Minister Dong Jun are visiting Cambodia to hold talks with their counterparts, Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn and Defense Minister Tea Seiha.— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
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Insider Ian Rapoport will update those three with league chatter and trade buzz.— Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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Their laughs and chatter fill the countryside and one another’s hearts, the merriment binding them all together like caterpillars in one big cocoon.— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Chitchats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/chitchats. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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