burble
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And notwithstanding the constant shrieks about America’s nativism and xenophobia, the melting pot continues to burble along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024
Even when he was trying to sound upbeat, the river of resentment would burble up in his mannerisms and his peevish voice.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
Much of the stream called Little Brook flows below the pavement in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood, emerging for just a moment to burble through a small park shadowed by apartment buildings.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Larry Gaines removed his gray sweatshirt, rolled up his sleeve and whispered above the otherworldly burble of chiming slot machines that drifted in from the casino floor.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
And then Ms. Rochambeau’s words burble up from inside me against my will.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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Large producers typically seek to capture and sell incidental natural gas that burbles up, and they have a strong financial incentive to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024
This is a two-tiered falls, widening as it descends: The water takes a long plunge, crashes into a pool, then burbles back up and falls again.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
I don’t know if anything I said made sense, but somewhere between the gray sidewalk and the gray sky, a laugh burbles out of me.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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A stone fountain burbled softly in his Japanese-inspired peace garden.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
After Justice Arthur Engoron handed down that hefty penalty in the fraud case, Eric Trump burbled some nonsense about how his dad had created the skyline of the city.
From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024
Earlier this week, as the Beltway burbled with speculation about California’s Senate seat, the liberal commentator Jonathan Capehart shared his thoughts on Twitter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Alabama and Texas A&M illustrated one of the byproducts that have burbled up out of college football’s ever-shifting ecosystem.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022
From his bachelor’s apartment in the Faculty Club, McMillan burbled incessantly about his work.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Ditto a reversal by NASA, whose then-leader enjoyed burbling in public about aliens but was soon assembling an expert panel to debunk such careless if crowd-pleasing talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Meghan is a wealthy American woman living a royal dream, if you ignore the geyser of British tabloid bile constantly burbling in the background of her life.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025
Along the way, I spotted flashy displays of yellow balsamroot and purple lupine as my family meandered alongside burbling Cowiche Creek.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
Before the war, the area abutting the school had been a little park, complete with burbling fountain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024
All I could hear were the voices of the ancient witches burbling their silly sentences about "How kind Your Grandness is" and all the rest of it.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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