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
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
About halfway through my babble, Tillman stopped me and said something like, ask it again, get to the point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
But he stood still, hearing the babble of voices and the clanging of the shovel against iron.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
He inserted reams of text in his work, added babbles of voices, stopped and started the flow, inundated the soundtrack with music, flooded the screen with color.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
A pond babbles outside the window, and a garden of succulents climbs up to claim the wooden exterior walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
As he babbles "cat" and "duck", I wish I could hear him without the whistling.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2022
But Mags tugs on my sleeve and babbles on until I’ve given the awl to her.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
Parents wiping schmear from their children's cheeks as the little ones babbled and squawked.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2022
And the clerk, he wanted to sell those things and make his money, so he babbled out, “Oh, they’re pefect, Reverend Shilsky, they’re pefect. ”
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 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 ● Aug. 22, 2025
Today, he can barely get out a sentence without babbling.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
“Sir Gawaine said: ‘Leave thy babbling and come off, and let us ease our hearts.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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