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 â Apr. 30, 2026
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate â Mar. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon â 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 â Aug. 4, 2024
My mind kept wandering back to the halls of C Average Middle School—the crash of locker doors, the babble of excited conversation.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
But inside, alongside the sounds of teens going to class are the cries and babbles of babies.
From BBC â Dec. 28, 2022
A pond babbles outside the window, and a garden of succulents climbs up to claim the wooden exterior walls.
From Los Angeles Times â Mar. 30, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post â Feb. 15, 2022
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — What babbles behind Marilyn Rudolph’s house in the rural countryside is no brook.
From New York Times â Jan. 12, 2022
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 â Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC â Sep. 6, 2023
Keona babbled wistfully to nobody in particular about Lahaina and things broken in the fire.
From Los Angeles Times â Aug. 21, 2023
Parents wiping schmear from their children's cheeks as the little ones babbled and squawked.
From Salon â Mar. 21, 2022
The ground grew soft, and in places boggy; springs appeared in the banks, and soon they found themselves following a brook that trickled and babbled through a weedy bed.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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 â Aug. 13, 2026
This, of course, is unscientific babbling, which is why the professor is a beloved guest on Rogan’s show.
From Salon â Dec. 1, 2025
Haden Pentecost, 41, was working on a flight from California to London when he started to become agitated and was described as "sweating" and "babbling".
From BBC â Aug. 22, 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 â Apr. 1, 2025
Moments when Jaimito wakes up babbling to himself and then, when he sees me, lights up with a smile.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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