babel
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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
They’ll also automatically adjust their volume based on your surroundings, and they have a feature that appears to translate languages on the fly like a babel fish.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2019
Gold, who deservedly won a Tony for his direction of the musical “Fun Home,” doesn’t seem to mind the babel of accents or the hodgepodge of acting approaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2019
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
There was a hoot of snarling horns and a babel of baying voices.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing babel
Tolkien Reading Day, List 3
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Fellowship of the Ring
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