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- adverb In a
chatty manner.
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- adverb in a chatty manner
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Examples
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At the very same time some Muslims were cleansing themselves for prayer, others chattily skipped out of the auditorium, checking their iPhones, and discussing where to go to lunch.
Jeremy Greenberg: The Observations Of A Jew Who Converted To Islam Jeremy Greenberg 2011
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Students, or anyone interested can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site's founder, Salman Khan, according to Wired Magazine, "chattily discusses principles of math, science, and economics with a smattering of social science topics thrown in."
John M. Eger: Digital Kids and the Kahn Academy John M. Eger 2011
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Back and forth between the highbrow serious and chattily humorous, he seemed to have no trouble navigating a range of poetic and dramatic forms.
IFOA Report 2009
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At the very same time some Muslims were cleansing themselves for prayer, others chattily skipped out of the auditorium, checking their iPhones, and discussing where to go to lunch.
Jeremy Greenberg: The Observations Of A Jew Who Converted To Islam Jeremy Greenberg 2011
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At the very same time some Muslims were cleansing themselves for prayer, others chattily skipped out of the auditorium, checking their iPhones, and discussing where to go to lunch.
Jeremy Greenberg: The Observations Of A Jew Who Converted To Islam Jeremy Greenberg 2011
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'He was wearing a nylon shirt,' the pathologist said chattily, 'and there were man-made fibres in the lining and cloth of his suit jacket.
They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010
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Whatever it was, it must have been funny, she said chattily.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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Whatever it was, it must have been funny, she said chattily.
One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010
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As we wait for the room, Salman chattily talks me through the photo-books he is carrying.
Johann Hari: How to Understand Kashmir and Survive the Jihadis: An Interview with Sir Salman Rushdie 2009
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Though Ali Gobaa was too gentlemanly to show resentment personally, many of those present (including my Christian self) cringed at the lack of deference shown to him by some Euro-Muslim speakers and chairs, who addressed him chattily ( "So, Shaykh ..."), and who clearly had no sense of the importance of his position or his statements.
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