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 â Apr. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon â May 29, 2025
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 â 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 â Jul. 25, 2024
"Ooh-ooh-" Someone was moaning outside and a babble of voices rose.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post â Feb. 15, 2022
He seethes, raves, mumbles and babbles, summoning thunderstorms of eloquence from intimate whispers.
From New York Times â Dec. 22, 2021
But with more than 1,400 bat species in the world, Dr Fernandez "really thinks there will be another that babbles".
From BBC â Aug. 19, 2021
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine â Aug. 19, 2021
She looks straight into my eyes and babbles a greeting.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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 â 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 â Apr. 7, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC â Sep. 6, 2023
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 21, 2023
“I can’t open it, I can’t, I can’t,” she babbled.
From "The Long-Lost Home" 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 â 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 â Mar. 11, 2026
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 â Apr. 1, 2025
The question left Pearce reeling, babbling out a reply that his laptop had automatically switched in an incorrect address on documents he’d uploaded.
From Los Angeles Times â Jan. 28, 2025
I followed him down, and we passed pilgrims by the thousands, babbling languages, everything but English.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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