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burble

[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

“I thought someone else would answer the call,” Ms. Prohaska, 51, said in an interview in her house on City Island in the Bronx, over the burble of hundreds of gallons of aquarium water.

From New York Times Mar. 17, 2023

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

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

This is a two-tiered falls, widening as it descends: The water takes a long plunge, crashes into a pool, then burbles back up and falls again.

From Seattle Times Jun. 28, 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

A multi-tiered fountain burbled away in the front garden.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 16, 2019

All the nervousness she'd been feeling about skipping to fourth grade suddenly burbled up inside her.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies

The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 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

These water gardens were lovely and relatively simple, but I still wanted the soothing sound of burbling water.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2024

Traditionally a celebration dish in Korea, this kalbijjim feels like a labor of love burbling on your table; it’s so good that I can see why my Korean friends say soup season is year-round.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2024

She was a fact of my life—a cute, burbling, impossible-to-ignore fact—and something compelled me almost literally to put her on the table for this discussion.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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