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gabble

[gab-uhl] / ˈgæb əl /


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And Lucky’s monologue—veering inanely through realms including religion, academics and sports—is delivered by Mr. Thornton not, as it usually is, as a galloping pile of gabble, but with a musing seriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 29, 2025

Hugo House is steamy by comparison, a hotbed of nerves and gabble.

From Seattle Times Mar. 13, 2024

At 41, he is disarmingly boyish, with a cherub’s fleshy face and a tendency to gabble enthusiastically when a subject excites him.

From New York Times Jun. 2, 2016

If I had carried on, the book would have been hernia-inducingly heavy, and it would have been a gabble.

From The Guardian Nov. 28, 2015

From the table at Winston’s left, a little behind his back, someone was talking rapidly and continuously, a harsh gabble almost like the quacking of a duck, which pierced the general uproar of the room.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Mr. Bernthal, an Emmy winner for “The Bear,” imbues Sonny with a pinballing energy as he gabbles orders at the hostages and begins flailing negotiations with the cops massing outside.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

He plays tenor saxophone in cries and gabbles and interval jumps and long tones; his music usually describes motion and spirit rather than corresponding to preset tonal centers, rhythms, and melodies.

From New York Times Jun. 12, 2014

King Kong has so much to say, often in interesting ways, that it gabbles and fluffs its lines.

From The Guardian Jun. 16, 2013

He approves of wordlessness – the less you talk, the longer you live, one fisherman tells him – but gabbles away like mad in his diary.

From The Guardian Jun. 1, 2013

And some thinks mebby some one has cut it down and took it away, and all gabbles to oncet.

From Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

It was, Mr. Michele gabbled during the video, “The end of the beginning of an experiment.”

From New York Times Jul. 17, 2020

Advance word on “Hereditary” told, or gabbled, of something more arresting than a regular fright night.

From The New Yorker Jun. 8, 2018

Another controversial early work, Eight Songs for a Mad King, combined monologues spoken, shrieked and gabbled by the mad George III with fragments of Handel's Messiah.

From BBC Mar. 14, 2016

Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess.

From The Guardian May 10, 2010

Rita was too sick, and Trashman merely gabbled at him.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Others were scattered around, calling out for the child in their irritating gabbling.

From Slate Jan. 30, 2021

This humanoid bot gave a speech to the UN, became a “citizen” of Saudi Arabia, and triggered headlines like “Sophia wants a baby” after gabbling some vague, pre-programmed remarks about the importance of families.

From The Verge Dec. 20, 2017

The key may lie in "gabbling," the Irish word for what goes inside each of our minds.

From Golf Digest Feb. 12, 2013

All around, the people are gabbling into mobile phones.

From The Guardian May 21, 2012

Inside, she saw a young boy in a bedraggled blue kefta pacing restlessly, gabbling to himself, scratching at his arms.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo




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