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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 a documentary last year, he recounted a middle-aged deliveryman who was reduced to a babbling fanboy when he spied the movie poster on Conner’s wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 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

It seemed a little irresponsible to leave him alone, babbling like that, so he took the cell phone Chip offered him.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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