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
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
About halfway through my babble, Tillman stopped me and said something like, ask it again, get to the point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Liyana knew he was trying to lighten the atmosphere, but a huge babble broke loose.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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
As he babbles "cat" and "duck", I wish I could hear him without the whistling.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2022
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 19, 2021
She babbles on about her classes while I ruin leaf after red leaf.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Meanwhile, Whoopi stepped up the blotting, offering comforting words to Jones while Behar babbled on in her own defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
Each pup, regardless of sex and regional origin, babbled during its development.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021
She hummed; she gurgled; she babbled; she screeched; she guffawed; she snorted; she yelled.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
Briany was sitting on Raysa’s lap as they watched TV in the living room, babbling along as she listened to the couple talk, when Israel’s phone rang.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 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
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
“What are you babbling about? I didn’t do anything to Cap. It was Winkleman! Haven’t you heard? It’s all over the school.”
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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