babel

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Sir Peter Bazalgette argues that they're needed more than ever in our AI age to serve as "a gold standard of trusted news for our democracy, amid the online Tower of Babel."

From BBC • May 13, 2025

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

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2025

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

Black person to black person, and neither could understand the other—the Tower of Babel.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah