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babble

[bab-uhl] / ˈbæb əl /




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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 ● Apr. 30, 2026

The mogul ended up apologizing for that babble, calling it the “dumbest post I’ve ever done.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026

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 ● Aug. 4, 2024

It frustrates smart readers because invariably the answer is "yes" yet the rationale is typically incoherent babble.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024

Then a babble burst forth from all the children at once.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He inserted reams of text in his work, added babbles of voices, stopped and started the flow, inundated the soundtrack with music, flooded the screen with color.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

A pond babbles outside the window, and a garden of succulents climbs up to claim the wooden exterior walls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022

As he babbles "cat" and "duck", I wish I could hear him without the whistling.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 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 ● Oct. 23, 2025

German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023

Parents wiping schmear from their children's cheeks as the little ones babbled and squawked.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2022

Here, they sit in an empty room and babble answers to babbled questions from a screen full of media types.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

“Miss Trixie has stood by Levy' Pants through the years,” the office manager explained while the ancient assistant accountant babbled something else about the turkey.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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 ● Aug. 13, 2026

The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.

From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026

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 ● Aug. 22, 2025

The gang finds him holed up in a New Hampshire factory of a company Guillermo’s firm just finished gutting, babbling incoherently like Col.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2024

He listened for Lyra’s babbling but heard nothing.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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