babel

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“The grocery store has become a Tower of Babel and consumers need to be linguists, scientists and mind readers to understand the many labels they see.”

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2024

Yossi Benayoun scored a hat-trick, while Peter Crouch and Ryan Babel both scored twice, with Steven Gerrard also on the scoresheet.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2023

The Tower of Babel remained as incomplete as the Winchester Mystery House.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

But in times of crisis such as now, the General Assembly and Security Council turn into a Babel in which everybody distrusts everybody else and finding common words becomes impossible.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

No one now reads his scholarly disquisitions on the Tower of Babel, or on the Scribes and the Pharisees.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton