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[bur-buhl] / ˈbɜr bəl /


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And notwithstanding the constant shrieks about America’s nativism and xenophobia, the melting pot continues to burble along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024

Even when he was trying to sound upbeat, the river of resentment would burble up in his mannerisms and his peevish voice.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

Much of the stream called Little Brook flows below the pavement in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood, emerging for just a moment to burble through a small park shadowed by apartment buildings.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

It’s an upbeat soul-gospel shuffle, filled with little flashes of exuberance from a frisky studio band: a quick bass run, an organ burble, a slide-guitar swoop, a ripple of honky-tonk piano.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2021

A Bunsen burner’s hissing blue flame was making a round-bottomed bottle full of purple goop burble and bubble.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

“If you want to get metaphysical about it, it’s layers of human experience that may still be reverberating,” she said, thinking about the prehistoric ooze that burbles under Wilshire Boulevard.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024

The creek, a tributary to the wild Chinook-bearing Chehalis River, burbles beneath the ridge.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

A glorious racket came from the branches—tweedling notes, peeps, burbles, high sharp calls.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

A stone fountain burbled softly in his Japanese-inspired peace garden.

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026

After Justice Arthur Engoron handed down that hefty penalty in the fraud case, Eric Trump burbled some nonsense about how his dad had created the skyline of the city.

From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024

Alabama and Texas A&M illustrated one of the byproducts that have burbled up out of college football’s ever-shifting ecosystem.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022

It burbled beneath the surface at public events in the offseason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

A yellow brook burbled through a mountain pass.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Ditto a reversal by NASA, whose then-leader enjoyed burbling in public about aliens but was soon assembling an expert panel to debunk such careless if crowd-pleasing talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Meghan is a wealthy American woman living a royal dream, if you ignore the geyser of British tabloid bile constantly burbling in the background of her life.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025

Before the war, the area abutting the school had been a little park, complete with burbling fountain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2024

At the farm, the only sounds were a burbling stream, trilling birds and several inches of snow crunching beneath their feet.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

She dropped it into the purifier, which made burbling noises as it came to a boil.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld


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