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 β Apr. 30, 2026
But until she signed up for “Palm Royale,” she had never tackled a role that would require her to spend a large chunk of time speaking in incomprehensible babble.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 13, 2024
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 β Aug. 4, 2024
It frustrates smart readers because invariably the answer is "yes" yet the rationale is typically incoherent babble.
From Salon β Mar. 5, 2024
From inside there was a babble of mixed voices.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
But inside, alongside the sounds of teens going to class are the cries and babbles of babies.
From BBC β Dec. 28, 2022
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 β 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 β Mar. 30, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post β Feb. 15, 2022
But Mags tugs on my sleeve and babbles on until I’ve given the awl to her.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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 β Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC β Sep. 6, 2023
Sophie babbled from her car seat after Maggie picked her up from another unpaid child care session with Adam.
From Slate β Mar. 25, 2023
Parents wiping schmear from their children's cheeks as the little ones babbled and squawked.
From Salon β Mar. 21, 2022
“You should see it down there!” he babbled excitedly.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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 β 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 β 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 β Apr. 1, 2025
Nearby Antonovich Trail, a popular trek for locals, meanders along a babbling Walnut Creek, shaded by fig, coast live oak and eucalyptus trees.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 22, 2024
Even after we pulled into the driveway of Frances’s house and her friend approached, she was babbling away, complaining now.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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Unit 4: Powerful Openings
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