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
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate â Mar. 29, 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
The babble of news anchors with their interactive electoral maps always jangled my nerves.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
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 â Oct. 23, 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
She was charismatic and charming; I babbled on like a teenager meeting an onscreen idol.
From Salon â May 25, 2023
The idiotic voice babbled once more from the speaker, and Rachael Rosen settled back and made herself comfortable.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate â Mar. 29, 2026
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 â Aug. 22, 2025
The gang finds him holed up in a New Hampshire factory of a company Guillermo’s firm just finished gutting, babbling incoherently like Col.
From Salon â Nov. 11, 2024
She’s probably just babbling, but maybe she’s started to say a few words.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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