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
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon â 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 â Aug. 4, 2024
Only hours later, when I began to babble incoherently, did my OB realize that the doctor in question had missed my epidural space.
From Slate â Aug. 7, 2023
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 â Oct. 23, 2026
But inside, alongside the sounds of teens going to class are the cries and babbles of babies.
From BBC â Dec. 28, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post â Feb. 15, 2022
He seethes, raves, mumbles and babbles, summoning thunderstorms of eloquence from intimate whispers.
From New York Times â Dec. 22, 2021
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 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
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 21, 2023
Each pup, regardless of sex and regional origin, babbled during its development.
From Salon â Aug. 28, 2021
Trashman babbled excitedly as Tendai and Rita ran up.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
Briany was sitting on Raysa’s lap as they watched TV in the living room, babbling along as she listened to the couple talk, when Israel’s phone rang.
From Salon â Mar. 24, 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
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
Even the river’s babbling sounded like the call of a liquid throat waiting, just waiting for them.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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