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  • present participle of babble.
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babbling

[bab-ling] / ˈbæb lɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
murmuring
Synonyms


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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 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 Mar. 11, 2026

Today, he can barely get out a sentence without babbling.

From Salon Jul. 17, 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 Apr. 1, 2025

We’d seen him babbling and walking cockeyed down the road, leaning over so far you keep thinking he’ll plumb fall over.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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