babbled

verb

past tense of babble
1
as in chatted
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly in such a rush to tell us the news that she just babbled

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2
as in talked
to engage in casual or rambling conversation the little girls babbled contentedly for the whole ride home

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Recent Examples of babbled But Bhatta was hypothermic and occasionally babbled gibberish. — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026 As Lindell babbled on about baseless conspiracy theories involving voting in De Baraso’s home state of Georgia, the 12-year-old shut him down. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for babbled
  1. chatted
  2. talked
  3. chattered
  4. conversed
  5. drooled
  6. shouted
  7. sputtered
  8. muttered
Verb
  • Many of the players Fleury chatted with during preseason games, though, won’t be counted on often during the regular season.
    — Andrew Destin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • At the end of the night, guests chatted about where the afterparty was, as amfAR eschewed hosting one this year.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of chatted
Verb
  • The voters who crowded into community halls, courthouses and a university lecture hall talked openly about Newsom’s presidential ambitions, even as Democrats try to keep the focus on November’s midterm elections.
    — Steve Peoples, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Trump talked to Warsh repeatedly, a report publicly backed by several of his aides.
    — Steve Liesman, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of talked
Verb
  • As the courtroom cleared, a jumble of spectators and journalists chattered about the whiplash.
    — Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Around the family, people shared takeout dinners, swung on hammocks and chattered.
    — Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
Definition of chattered
Verb
  • Hemingway commended Salinger, then a twenty-five-year-old staff sergeant, on his short stories, and the two conversed for hours.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • For a moment, two referees from the Falcons’ seventh training camp practice looked at each other, conversed and truly didn’t know what to rule.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of conversed
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  • Who had broken a wrist on the back-yard flagstones, drooled cherry medicine down her sleeping face on the car ride back from the hospital.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2026
Definition of drooled
Verb
  • Sais said the men shouted homophobic and racist slurs before punching him, knocking him to the ground and leaving him with injuries to his face and head.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The man called the flight attendant, who is Black, a racial slur and also shouted anti-gay remarks, according to the outlet.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of shouted
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  • Then in the Super Bowl while New England's offense sputtered, Gonzalez did his best to keep the team in the game with several key pass breakups.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • But back home in the 305, Brady and Earle were never spotted together again, at least in public, and talk of their possible budding situationship sputtered.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of sputtered
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  • This was 1872, and the pious (and patronizing) commentators of the time muttered that Damien’s unvarnished personality was due to his simple farm upbringing in rural Belgium.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • Bat met ball and, under his breath, Astros manager Joe Espada muttered an expletive.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 29 June 2026
Definition of muttered

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