rumor mill

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rumor mill (plural rumor mills)

  1. (American spelling, idiomatic) A process in which a group or network of persons originate or promulgate gossip and other unsubstantiated claims.
    • 1963 July 5, “A Kennedy Speaks to a Lodge”, in Time:
      For months the Washington rumor mill has ground out gossip about who might replace U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr.
    • 2008 March 30, “Zimbabwe Opposition Claims Victory”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 September 2008:
      Unofficial results instead traveled through the rumor mill, passed along on mobile phones from one part of the country to another.
    • 2023 September 26, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Dior opens Paris fashion week with feminist sloganeering on the catwalk”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      The rumour mill is also abuzz with chat that Alessandro Michele, who parted with Gucci last year, is to make a return to the fashion frontline.

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