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
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon β 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 β 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 β Jul. 25, 2024
I babble for a few minutes about my colors, wishing I could tell them about seeing the pheromones.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Another highlight is Toinette’s impersonation of a doctor, in which Ms. Bloom babbles nonsense in a globe-trotting accent.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 23, 2026
But inside, alongside the sounds of teens going to class are the cries and babbles of babies.
From BBC β Dec. 28, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post β Feb. 15, 2022
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — What babbles behind Marilyn Rudolph’s house in the rural countryside is no brook.
From New York Times β Jan. 12, 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
I babbled on, hardly aware of what I was saying, and afraid to look around.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
In a documentary last year, he recounted a middle-aged deliveryman who was reduced to a babbling fanboy when he spied the movie poster on Conner’s wall.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 18, 2026
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate β 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 β Mar. 11, 2026
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 β Nov. 12, 2025
"I was off my rocker when she let me out. I was babbling like an idiot."
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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