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
About halfway through my babble, Tillman stopped me and said something like, ask it again, get to the point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
It frustrates smart readers because invariably the answer is "yes" yet the rationale is typically incoherent babble.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024
What they saw pulled the fragments of Piper’s babble together.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
"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 ● Oct. 17, 2025
A pond babbles outside the window, and a garden of succulents climbs up to claim the wooden exterior walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — What babbles behind Marilyn Rudolph’s house in the rural countryside is no brook.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
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 ● Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023
She was charismatic and charming; I babbled on like a teenager meeting an onscreen idol.
From Salon ● May 25, 2023
But she had babbled at Murphy who appeared to listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
There he babbled endlessly, words with no meaning.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
Briany was sitting on Raysa’s lap as they watched TV in the living room, babbling along as she listened to the couple talk, when Israel’s phone rang.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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 ● Aug. 22, 2025
The hallway is packed with kids, all frantic, all babbling at the same time.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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