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
So coach Andy Reid can babble “Bundle-Rooski” on inane commercials for another season?
From Los Angeles Times â Jan. 27, 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 â Aug. 4, 2024
It frustrates smart readers because invariably the answer is "yes" yet the rationale is typically incoherent babble.
From Salon â Mar. 5, 2024
Every class change, the babble of speculation in the halls gets a little bit louder, and the teachers look a little bit more desperate.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — What babbles behind Marilyn Rudolph’s house in the rural countryside is no brook.
From New York Times â Jan. 12, 2022
As he babbles "cat" and "duck", I wish I could hear him without the whistling.
From BBC â Jan. 3, 2022
She looks straight into my eyes and babbles a greeting.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
Meanwhile, Whoopi stepped up the blotting, offering comforting words to Jones while Behar babbled on in her own defense.
From Los Angeles Times â Dec. 11, 2025
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
She was charismatic and charming; I babbled on like a teenager meeting an onscreen idol.
From Salon â May 25, 2023
Mom babbled on about some new tax law and unhappy clients, with Dad nodding along.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
In a documentary last year, he recounted a middle-aged deliveryman who was reduced to a babbling fanboy when he spied the movie poster on Conner’s wall.
From The Wall Street Journal â Oct. 18, 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
Fortunately, almost as soon as Dek lands on Genna, a planet of murderous flora, to bag his Kalisk, he runs into a babbling half-robot missing her legs who makes the movie much more compelling.
From Los Angeles Times â Nov. 12, 2025
Haden Pentecost, 41, was working on a flight from California to London when he started to become agitated and was described as "sweating" and "babbling".
From BBC â Aug. 22, 2025
I followed him down, and we passed pilgrims by the thousands, babbling languages, everything but English.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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