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 ● Apr. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
So coach Andy Reid can babble “Bundle-Rooski” on inane commercials for another season?
From Los Angeles Times ● 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 ● Aug. 4, 2024
Owls hooted to one another in a disgruntled sort of way over the babble and the scraping of heavy trunks.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
"He's hitting his milestones just as he should be, and he's putting on weight nicely while giving us lots of laughs and babbles; everything a baby should be doing," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
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
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — What babbles behind Marilyn Rudolph’s house in the rural countryside is no brook.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2022
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 ● 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
She was charismatic and charming; I babbled on like a teenager meeting an onscreen idol.
From Salon ● May 25, 2023
Sophie babbled from her car seat after Maggie picked her up from another unpaid child care session with Adam.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2023
He babbled in a mix of languages and pounded his fists on the nursery wall until the plaster threatened to crack.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate ● 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 ● Mar. 11, 2026
That is not to say it would have been particularly shrewd for the president to have wandered into the Rose Garden and started babbling about what a “very fine person” Luigi Mangione is.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 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 was wandering around the desert, in a hundred and twenty degrees, in full Greek armor, babbling about string.”
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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