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
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 ● 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 ● Aug. 4, 2024
The mansion cracked its sides open and men and women spilt through the doors after their own babble.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
As he babbles "cat" and "duck", I wish I could hear him without the whistling.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2022
He seethes, raves, mumbles and babbles, summoning thunderstorms of eloquence from intimate whispers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
She babbles on about her classes while I ruin leaf after red leaf.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Sophie babbled to herself on the floor beneath them.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2023
Here, they sit in an empty room and babble answers to babbled questions from a screen full of media types.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Trashman babbled excitedly as Tendai and Rita ran up.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
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 ● Nov. 12, 2025
Howard burst out of the box and sprinted downstairs as fast as he could go, babbling and shaking hands with everyone he saw.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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