babel

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It would be a little bit of a tower of Babel, with different astronomers saying different things.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2025

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

To work through the Tower of Babel of software and hardware speaking different languages that evolved in the 1980s and early 1990s, however, required another big breakthrough.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman