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[bur-buhl] / ˈbɜr bəl /


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And notwithstanding the constant shrieks about America’s nativism and xenophobia, the melting pot continues to burble along.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2024

Even when he was trying to sound upbeat, the river of resentment would burble up in his mannerisms and his peevish voice.

From Salon Jan. 23, 2024

“I thought someone else would answer the call,” Ms. Prohaska, 51, said in an interview in her house on City Island in the Bronx, over the burble of hundreds of gallons of aquarium water.

From New York Times Mar. 17, 2023

Much of the stream called Little Brook flows below the pavement in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood, emerging for just a moment to burble through a small park shadowed by apartment buildings.

From Seattle Times Sep. 19, 2022

And then Ms. Rochambeau’s words burble up from inside me against my will.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden

Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.

From Barron's Nov. 26, 2025

One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.

From Science Magazine Jan. 9, 2024

The creek, a tributary to the wild Chinook-bearing Chehalis River, burbles beneath the ridge.

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2023

Leslie Run burbles along the bottom of the hill where the Murphys live.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2023

A glorious racket came from the branches—tweedling notes, peeps, burbles, high sharp calls.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

A stone fountain burbled softly in his Japanese-inspired peace garden.

From BBC Jan. 10, 2026

Alabama and Texas A&M illustrated one of the byproducts that have burbled up out of college football’s ever-shifting ecosystem.

From Washington Post Oct. 9, 2022

It's like the ugly reality that was being daintily concealed in the '80s has burbled up and consumed us all.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2019

Fatigue and desperation burbled up as people searched vainly for food, gasoline and power when nearly every storefront was dark.

From New York Times Oct. 2, 2018

In the distance a brook burbled happily along, and a great tree beyond it spread its branches wide.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

At Maywood’s Riverfront Park, Ma was accompanied by the vroom of nearby traffic, cascade of a yucca rainstick and burbling hum of a water synth.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Meghan is a wealthy American woman living a royal dream, if you ignore the geyser of British tabloid bile constantly burbling in the background of her life.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2025

Traditionally a celebration dish in Korea, this kalbijjim feels like a labor of love burbling on your table; it’s so good that I can see why my Korean friends say soup season is year-round.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2024

Water cascaded off roofs, splashed loudly onto the sidewalks, and ran in burbling rivers through the streets.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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