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
At long last, however, I went to sleep listening to the soothing babble of running water outside my bedroom window.
From Los Angeles Times â Jul. 25, 2024
All around her was a babble of sound.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
"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 â Oct. 17, 2025
At first Bella babbles and stumbles around like a precocious toddler, learning to speak and move by imitating the adults around her.
From New York Times â Mar. 2, 2024
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post â Feb. 15, 2022
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
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 21, 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
They didn’t know that sometimes, when the pressure was on, Jake McQuade just babbled.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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
This, of course, is unscientific babbling, which is why the professor is a beloved guest on Rogan’s show.
From Salon â Dec. 1, 2025
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
“Dad—there’s something wrong with her,” I was babbling.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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