Examples of Babylon in a Sentence
Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 5 Sep. 2023
Another health tech darling implodes Industry watchers have long had an eye on British telehealth and AI company Babylon Health, whose startup valuations once reportedly topped $2 billion and which later scored high profile contracts with the U.K.’s National Health Service.
—Mohana Ravindranath, STAT, 5 Sep. 2023
With her mop of curly hair and the dress, Mimosa creates one of this film’s distracting echoes of Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, presumably inadvertent because that other movie-world saga was only released in December.
—Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
In March, 2022, Twitter restricted the account of the satirical Web site the Babylon Bee, after the site misgendered a government official.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
Before reinstating Trump’s account last year, Musk also brought back the accounts belonging to the conservative parody outlet The Babylon Bee, comedian Kathy Griffin, and author Jordan Peterson.
—Makena Kelly, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2023
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—Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
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Our Strangers, Lydia Davis (Oct. 3)
With her seventh short-story collection, Lydia Davis leans into the irreverent and ignores the conventions of the form.
—Shannon Carlin, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
The following week, Musk polled his followers about whether Twitter respected free speech and, in a phone call to the Babylon Bee’s C.E.O., joked about buying the platform.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
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Word History
Babylon, ancient city of Babylonia
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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Geographical Definition
Babylon
geographical name
Note: The site of Babylon is about 55 miles (89 kilometers) south of Baghdad near the Euphrates River.
see also babylonian
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