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babel

[bab-uhl, bah-byil] / ˈbæb əl, ˈbɑ byɪl /


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Avant-garde … There’s a bewildering babel of labels used to try to classify artists who are defiantly unclassifiable.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022

In a babel of tongues, ordinary Europeans vented their pandemic fatigue.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2021

The babel of foreign languages spoken by tourists visiting it bears a rough sonic similarity to those around Castle Garden in 1885.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2016

The babel of voices and accents, their snarls, their drawls, their short, clipped phrases or long, flowing rambles, their clarity or muddle, their eagerness or depression, reveal their regional origins, their class, their temperament.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013

And through the babel he heard cries of: “Whip, whip, the whip!”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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