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babel

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


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Day and night bring a babel of languages to the city’s bridges.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

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

They’ll also automatically adjust their volume based on your surroundings, and they have a feature that appears to translate languages on the fly like a babel fish.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 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

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

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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