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
The mogul ended up apologizing for that babble, calling it the “dumbest post I’ve ever done.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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 ● Aug. 4, 2024
He experienced them, the others, incorporated the babble of their thoughts, heard in his own brain the noise of their many individual existences.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
But inside, alongside the sounds of teens going to class are the cries and babbles of babies.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
He seethes, raves, mumbles and babbles, summoning thunderstorms of eloquence from intimate whispers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 19, 2021
She looks straight into my eyes and babbles a greeting.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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
But she had babbled at Murphy who appeared to listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Each pup, regardless of sex and regional origin, babbled during its development.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2021
The ground grew soft, and in places boggy; springs appeared in the banks, and soon they found themselves following a brook that trickled and babbled through a weedy bed.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
This, of course, is unscientific babbling, which is why the professor is a beloved guest on Rogan’s show.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2025
Haden Pentecost, 41, was working on a flight from California to London when he started to become agitated and was described as "sweating" and "babbling".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
That is not to say it would have been particularly shrewd for the president to have wandered into the Rose Garden and started babbling about what a “very fine person” Luigi Mangione is.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2025
Having heard me, out of my head, babbling telephone numbers, they have already passed news of me to my family.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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