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babel

[bab-uhl, bah-byil] / ˈbæb əl, ˈbɑ byɪl /


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Avant-garde … There’s a bewildering babel of labels used to try to classify artists who are defiantly unclassifiable.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022

Gold, who deservedly won a Tony for his direction of the musical “Fun Home,” doesn’t seem to mind the babel of accents or the hodgepodge of acting approaches.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

The babel of foreign languages spoken by tourists visiting it bears a rough sonic similarity to those around Castle Garden in 1885.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2016

Sitting atop his tower of babel of knowledge, Wales describes himself as little more than a figurehead.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2014

And through the babel he heard cries of: “Whip, whip, the whip!”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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