babel
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Avant-garde … There’s a bewildering babel of labels used to try to classify artists who are defiantly unclassifiable.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022
Gold, who deservedly won a Tony for his direction of the musical “Fun Home,” doesn’t seem to mind the babel of accents or the hodgepodge of acting approaches.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019
The babel of foreign languages spoken by tourists visiting it bears a rough sonic similarity to those around Castle Garden in 1885.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2016
The babel of voices and accents, their snarls, their drawls, their short, clipped phrases or long, flowing rambles, their clarity or muddle, their eagerness or depression, reveal their regional origins, their class, their temperament.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
‘Half a minute, if you please!’ shouted the man over his shoulder, and vanished into a babel of voices and a cloud of smoke.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing babel
Tolkien Reading Day, List 3
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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The Fellowship of the Ring
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