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 â Apr. 30, 2026
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate â Mar. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon â May 29, 2025
Standing at the mouth of the tunnel, the constant babble of cascading water dominates the senses.
From Los Angeles Times â Apr. 27, 2025
Samir called them his towers of babble, but it was also clear that they were costly merchandise.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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 â Oct. 23, 2026
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post â Feb. 15, 2022
As he babbles "cat" and "duck", I wish I could hear him without the whistling.
From BBC â Jan. 3, 2022
He seethes, raves, mumbles and babbles, summoning thunderstorms of eloquence from intimate whispers.
From New York Times â Dec. 22, 2021
She looks straight into my eyes and babbles a greeting.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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 â Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC â Sep. 6, 2023
Sophie babbled to herself on the floor beneath them.
From Slate â Mar. 25, 2023
Parents wiping schmear from their children's cheeks as the little ones babbled and squawked.
From Salon â Mar. 21, 2022
“Yes. I love the Institute. It's my most favorite place. Well, aside from New Orleans. But yes, I love it,” she babbled.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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 â Aug. 13, 2026
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate â Mar. 29, 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 â Mar. 11, 2026
Today, he can barely get out a sentence without babbling.
From Salon â Jul. 17, 2025
The group wound its way past ancient trees, and over rolling meadows, and through babbling streams, collecting more and more curious animals as they went.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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