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 β Apr. 30, 2026
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate β Mar. 29, 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 β Aug. 4, 2024
It frustrates smart readers because invariably the answer is "yes" yet the rationale is typically incoherent babble.
From Salon β Mar. 5, 2024
Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
"He's hitting his milestones just as he should be, and he's putting on weight nicely while giving us lots of laughs and babbles; everything a baby should be doing," he added.
From BBC β Oct. 17, 2025
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post β Feb. 15, 2022
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — What babbles behind Marilyn Rudolph’s house in the rural countryside is no brook.
From New York Times β Jan. 12, 2022
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine β Aug. 19, 2021
But Mags tugs on my sleeve and babbles on until I’ve given the awl to her.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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 β Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC β Sep. 6, 2023
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 21, 2023
Sophie babbled from her car seat after Maggie picked her up from another unpaid child care session with Adam.
From Slate β Mar. 25, 2023
Madame Pyrénées, the geography teacher, babbled excitedly in French and then embraced Penelope and the children in turn until she was breathless from planting multiple kisses on each cheek.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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 β Aug. 13, 2026
Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 7, 2025
Haden Pentecost, 41, was working on a flight from California to London when he started to become agitated and was described as "sweating" and "babbling".
From BBC β Aug. 22, 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 β Apr. 1, 2025
Having heard me, out of my head, babbling telephone numbers, they have already passed news of me to my family.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & MarΓa Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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