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babel

[bab-uhl, bah-byil] / ˈbæb əl, ˈbɑ bjɪl /


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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

They’ll also automatically adjust their volume based on your surroundings, and they have a feature that appears to translate languages on the fly like a babel fish.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2019

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

There was a hoot of snarling horns and a babel of baying voices.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien


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