burble
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And notwithstanding the constant shrieks about America’s nativism and xenophobia, the melting pot continues to burble along.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2024
Even when he was trying to sound upbeat, the river of resentment would burble up in his mannerisms and his peevish voice.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
Much of the stream called Little Brook flows below the pavement in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood, emerging for just a moment to burble through a small park shadowed by apartment buildings.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
First one manatee surfaces, making that now-familiar burble as it takes a deep breath.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
Jake heard a very loud burble, like bubbles in a bathtub.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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Birds sing and the Lukaya River burbles along the valley floor.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
“If you want to get metaphysical about it, it’s layers of human experience that may still be reverberating,” she said, thinking about the prehistoric ooze that burbles under Wilshire Boulevard.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
One line of evidence came from isotope measurements of helium that burbles up in Tibetan springs.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024
This is a two-tiered falls, widening as it descends: The water takes a long plunge, crashes into a pool, then burbles back up and falls again.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
I don’t know if anything I said made sense, but somewhere between the gray sidewalk and the gray sky, a laugh burbles out of me.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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A stone fountain burbled softly in his Japanese-inspired peace garden.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
Alabama and Texas A&M illustrated one of the byproducts that have burbled up out of college football’s ever-shifting ecosystem.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022
It's like the ugly reality that was being daintily concealed in the '80s has burbled up and consumed us all.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2019
It was late summer at JourneyPure; the horses were grazing behind the barn, and a river burbled behind the cluster of cottages where patients live.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2018
“Cut it out, Aunt Rachel!” burbled Dill, his head half under water.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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At Maywood’s Riverfront Park, Ma was accompanied by the vroom of nearby traffic, cascade of a yucca rainstick and burbling hum of a water synth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The answers, though, seem largely incidental beside the pageantry of haute cuisine and burbling table talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Meghan is a wealthy American woman living a royal dream, if you ignore the geyser of British tabloid bile constantly burbling in the background of her life.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025
Along the way, I spotted flashy displays of yellow balsamroot and purple lupine as my family meandered alongside burbling Cowiche Creek.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
It would’ve been silent, save for Maya-Jade’s burbling excitement as she filled Mim in on the reunion of Ginny and Dickie.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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