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 β Apr. 30, 2026
Behind me, a child began to giggle—then babble, then laugh again.
From Slate β Mar. 29, 2026
Meanwhile, the southern pied babbler does not, in fact, merely babble.
From Salon β 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 β Aug. 4, 2024
He slapped me on the back and started to babble.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
A pond babbles outside the window, and a garden of succulents climbs up to claim the wooden exterior walls.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 30, 2022
I listened to their babbles and tried to echo the sounds I heard.
From Washington Post β Feb. 15, 2022
HAYNEVILLE, Ala. — What babbles behind Marilyn Rudolph’s house in the rural countryside is no brook.
From New York Times β Jan. 12, 2022
But with more than 1,400 bat species in the world, Dr Fernandez "really thinks there will be another that babbles".
From BBC β Aug. 19, 2021
She looks straight into my eyes and babbles a greeting.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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 β Oct. 23, 2025
German reports said Arthur E was a diamond trader who had "babbled like a brook" after his arrest.
From BBC β Sep. 6, 2023
She was charismatic and charming; I babbled on like a teenager meeting an onscreen idol.
From Salon β May 25, 2023
Sophie babbled to herself on the floor beneath them.
From Slate β Mar. 25, 2023
“Yes. I love the Institute. It's my most favorite place. Well, aside from New Orleans. But yes, I love it,” she babbled.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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 β Aug. 13, 2026
The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.
From Slate β Mar. 29, 2026
Briany was sitting on Raysa’s lap as they watched TV in the living room, babbling along as she listened to the couple talk, when Israel’s phone rang.
From Salon β Mar. 24, 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 β Mar. 11, 2026
Ivy heard Evan babbling from where she knew he was set up in his high chair, stuffing his face with Cheerios.
From "Ivy Aberdeenβs Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Vocabulary lists containing babble
Instead of "Said": Words That Sound Like What They Mean
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Mother's Day Words: What Mothers Do
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Unit 4: Powerful Openings
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