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
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate â Mar. 29, 2026
The mogul ended up apologizing for that babble, calling it the “dumbest post I’ve ever done.”
From Los Angeles Times â 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 â Aug. 4, 2024
All around her was a babble of sound.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Kente babbles on about a mill; the workers struggle to understand what he’s on about even as they try to explain what they’re doing.
From New York Times â Mar. 17, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post â Feb. 15, 2022
But with more than 1,400 bat species in the world, Dr Fernandez "really thinks there will be another that babbles".
From BBC â Aug. 19, 2021
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine â Aug. 19, 2021
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 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
Sophie babbled from her car seat after Maggie picked her up from another unpaid child care session with Adam.
From Slate â Mar. 25, 2023
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
"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
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 â Apr. 1, 2025
I don't know, I'm starting to veer into tropes and babbling.
From Salon â Aug. 21, 2024
Anyway, he was babbling away about how our “special moatmeal treat” would “refix” his “parts” when I turned away for a second to get a wooden spoon.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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