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  • present participle of babble.
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babbling

[bab-ling] / ˈbæb lɪŋ /


ADJECTIVE
murmuring
Synonyms


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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 ● Oct. 18, 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

The question left Pearce reeling, babbling out a reply that his laptop had automatically switched in an incorrect address on documents he’d uploaded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

He heard something, though, under the babbling of the brook: a sniffling, and a swallowing.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman


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