babble
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Instead he softened the blow with corporate babble: “You were building the plane while you flew it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
At long last, however, I went to sleep listening to the soothing babble of running water outside my bedroom window.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024
It frustrates smart readers because invariably the answer is "yes" yet the rationale is typically incoherent babble.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024
The elevator stopped; the doors opened and he saw a restless crowd of people and heard a babble of voices.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Kente babbles on about a mill; the workers struggle to understand what he’s on about even as they try to explain what they’re doing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
But with more than 1,400 bat species in the world, Dr Fernandez "really thinks there will be another that babbles".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2021
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 19, 2021
She babbles on about her classes while I ruin leaf after red leaf.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
I spent days pressing a light-up toy when we said his name to draw his attention and babbled incessantly in his face so he could copy my lip patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
Lutnick showed up on CBS' "Face the Nation" and babbled so incoherently about robots and manufacturing and "tiny screws" that you had to wonder if someone put something in his morning coffee.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Pulling back each of Fig’s ears and peeking inside, Dr. Spires babbled on about chemical waste and blood and dysfunction.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
In the book, most homes have parlor walls with huge video screens that broadcast streams of babbling commentary for both entertainment and manipulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"America is a big place with 350 plus million people all babbling over their identity and their agency and those struggles create interesting patterns," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
This, of course, is unscientific babbling, which is why the professor is a beloved guest on Rogan’s show.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2025
That is not to say it would have been particularly shrewd for the president to have wandered into the Rose Garden and started babbling about what a “very fine person” Luigi Mangione is.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2025
“Dad—there’s something wrong with her,” I was babbling.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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