babble
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Instead he softened the blow with corporate babble: “You were building the plane while you flew it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024
He would babble something onto the same tape, which his grandparents would mail back to New Haven, Conn. — a cycle that repeated for several years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
Bloom, with his wailing daughter cupped in the crook of one arm, started pushing back through the people, the smoke, and the Spanish babble.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
"He's hitting his milestones just as he should be, and he's putting on weight nicely while giving us lots of laughs and babbles; everything a baby should be doing," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
Kente babbles on about a mill; the workers struggle to understand what he’s on about even as they try to explain what they’re doing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
Finally, most baby babbles seem to lack communicative purpose.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 19, 2021
She babbles on about her classes while I ruin leaf after red leaf.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
I spent days pressing a light-up toy when we said his name to draw his attention and babbled incessantly in his face so he could copy my lip patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023
Parents wiping schmear from their children's cheeks as the little ones babbled and squawked.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2022
But she had babbled at Murphy who appeared to listen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Polly watched, fascinated, as the girl squirmed and screeched and babbled incoherently.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
In the book, most homes have parlor walls with huge video screens that broadcast streams of babbling commentary for both entertainment and manipulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"America is a big place with 350 plus million people all babbling over their identity and their agency and those struggles create interesting patterns," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026
This, of course, is unscientific babbling, which is why the professor is a beloved guest on Rogan’s show.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2025
That is not to say it would have been particularly shrewd for the president to have wandered into the Rose Garden and started babbling about what a “very fine person” Luigi Mangione is.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2025
But with Coach I’m babbling, feelings gushing like water.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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