babble
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Instead he softened the blow with corporate babble: “You were building the plane while you flew it.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon β May 29, 2025
Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.
From BBC β Aug. 4, 2024
About halfway through my babble, Tillman stopped me and said something like, ask it again, get to the point.
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 22, 2024
All around her was a babble of sound.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Another highlight is Toinette’s impersonation of a doctor, in which Ms. Bloom babbles nonsense in a globe-trotting accent.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 23, 2026
"He's hitting his milestones just as he should be, and he's putting on weight nicely while giving us lots of laughs and babbles; everything a baby should be doing," he added.
From BBC β Oct. 17, 2025
A pond babbles outside the window, and a garden of succulents climbs up to claim the wooden exterior walls.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 30, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post β Feb. 15, 2022
She babbles on about her classes while I ruin leaf after red leaf.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
I spent days pressing a light-up toy when we said his name to draw his attention and babbled incessantly in his face so he could copy my lip patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC β Sep. 6, 2023
Sophie babbled from her car seat after Maggie picked her up from another unpaid child care session with Adam.
From Slate β Mar. 25, 2023
But she had babbled at Murphy who appeared to listen.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 1, 2021
She babbled on, and Ivy nodded and smiled, trying to figure out what just happened.
From "Ivy Aberdeenβs Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
In the book, most homes have parlor walls with huge video screens that broadcast streams of babbling commentary for both entertainment and manipulation.
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 13, 2026
"America is a big place with 350 plus million people all babbling over their identity and their agency and those struggles create interesting patterns," he says.
From BBC β Mar. 11, 2026
Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 7, 2025
Today, he can barely get out a sentence without babbling.
From Salon β Jul. 17, 2025
The chaplain’s babbling confidence did not falter for an instant.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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