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
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 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 ● 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
Bagman called earnestly over the crowd’s babble, his round blue eyes widening.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" 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
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 ● 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 ● Mar. 30, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 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
Parents wiping schmear from their children's cheeks as the little ones babbled and squawked.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2022
But she had babbled at Murphy who appeared to listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
“I can’t open it, I can’t, I can’t,” she babbled.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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 ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
I don't know, I'm starting to veer into tropes and babbling.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
He still didn’t say anything, so I just kept on babbling.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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