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 â Apr. 30, 2026
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate â Mar. 29, 2026
But until she signed up for “Palm Royale,” she had never tackled a role that would require her to spend a large chunk of time speaking in incomprehensible babble.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 13, 2024
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 â Aug. 4, 2024
So from the time I could babble and my brother could reason, we spent hours in daily study.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
At first Bella babbles and stumbles around like a precocious toddler, learning to speak and move by imitating the adults around her.
From New York Times â Mar. 2, 2024
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post â Feb. 15, 2022
As he babbles "cat" and "duck", I wish I could hear him without the whistling.
From BBC â Jan. 3, 2022
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine â 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 â Oct. 23, 2025
Lutnick showed up on CBS' "Face the Nation" and babbled so incoherently about robots and manufacturing and "tiny screws" that you had to wonder if someone put something in his morning coffee.
From Salon â Apr. 7, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC â Sep. 6, 2023
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 21, 2023
“I am a very attractive woman,” Miss Trixie babbled.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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 â Oct. 18, 2026
Briany was sitting on Raysa’s lap as they watched TV in the living room, babbling along as she listened to the couple talk, when Israel’s phone rang.
From Salon â Mar. 24, 2026
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 â 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 â Apr. 1, 2025
There’s even a babbling stream that snakes its way through the room, but there are no fish—at least no real ones.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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