While we ate and Lang and Eschenbach gossiped a little about the classical-music world, a large television tuned to CCTV murmured on the wall.

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Ten years ago, we chatted with colleagues at bars for happy hour, met with friends at restaurants and gossiped, and spoke with family around the holidays.

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For a business to be widely gossiped about, it is a good sign that the business is a rocket ship.

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His servants, seeing his glassy eyes and sweaty forehead, might have gossiped that a witch had hexed him, but the doctor would not have entertained that idea for a moment.

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If we gossiped about things people did that energized us without fixating on the things that disappointed us?

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