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
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate β 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 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
The terrible silence undid me, and I began to babble in the night.
From "The Teacherβs Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
"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 β Oct. 17, 2025
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
Kente babbles on about a mill; the workers struggle to understand what he’s on about even as they try to explain what they’re doing.
From New York Times β Mar. 17, 2022
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 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 to herself on the floor beneath them.
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
They babbled on and on about Haiti and orphans and medical supplies.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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
"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
Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 7, 2025
This, of course, is unscientific babbling, which is why the professor is a beloved guest on Rogan’s show.
From Salon β Dec. 1, 2025
She start whirling ’round like she Cinderella and babbling ’bout her “princess table.”
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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