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babel

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


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Day and night bring a babel of languages to the city’s bridges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2024

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

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

Sitting atop his tower of babel of knowledge, Wales describes himself as little more than a figurehead.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2014

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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