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
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
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
Samir whistles a birdly tune in memory of Rasseem and his tower of babble.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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 ● Mar. 2, 2024
But inside, alongside the sounds of teens going to class are the cries and babbles of babies.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 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
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
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 ● Apr. 7, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023
Sophie babbled to herself on the floor beneath them.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2023
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
I don't know, I'm starting to veer into tropes and babbling.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024
He listened for Lyra’s babbling but heard nothing.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing babble
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