This came from an idea he had while chatting with other researchers around a coffee pot in a hallway of the research center.

Others chatted around their shared need of food, but never about it.

Chatting around the dinner table encourages kids to talk to their parents about sensitive issues.

In the end, he said, they would have to be free to come and go, chat around the dinner table over television, speak the same language.

Cellphone records show that the two chatted around 9:45 Monday morning.

Are the agents actually working, or chatting around the coffee machine?

He turns his attention back to the screen, where the former champions are chatting around a table.

His wife and daughters were chatting around the dining room table when he came in.

I used to chat with them occasionally around the corridors, no harm in that.

They started spending hours chatting around the pool and soon became fast friends.