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as in drools
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
in such a rush to tell us the news that she just babbled
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as in chats
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the little girls babbled contentedly for the whole ride home
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Recent Examples of babbles
The teller babbles compulsively about past robberies, spilling details in a rush.
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Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2026
Esperanza speaks Spanish in a phone interview with NPR, while her 9-month-old baby coos and babbles in the background.
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Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
17 May 2026
Race radio babbles away from the glove compartment, providing updates in Portuguese and English.
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Andy McGrath,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
16 June 2026
Esperanza speaks Spanish in a phone interview with NPR, while her 9-month-old baby coos and babbles in the background.
—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
17 May 2026
Race radio babbles away from the glove compartment, providing updates in Portuguese and English.
—
Andy McGrath,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for babbles
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Zach Bryan shouts out the crowd on the London leg of his With Heaven on Tour on June 17.
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Roaring and grunting, his body sleek with blood and sweat, Conan tussles and grapples with a series of opponents, dominating them all, while an audience of torch-wielding vulgarians shouts and howls at the pit’s lip.
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While Yahia chats with The Star, his daughter, Hannah, takes a tray of baklava out of the oven.
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Inside the motel, Paula chats with Sky.
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As Paula finally reaches Detective Gonzalez and excitedly chatters about her wire transfer ruse, the wry officer isn’t amused.
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Mary Molloy, Arrigo’s clinical director, talks me through biodynamic therapy.
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Volvo's chief technology officer, Anders Bell, talks to his EX60 sport utility vehicle a lot.
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The father, Man, prattles on about mowing the lawn, painting the fence, and managing their orchard’s irrigation, while the son periodically falls off his chair from boredom.
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Epstein converses with Summers Larry Summers, Clinton’s Treasury secretary and the director of the National Economic Council under former President Obama, corresponded with Epstein numerous times via email.
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But for ordinary Americans, for those of us without fame, wealth, or connections, the machinery of justice often sputters.
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This will be a close game while the Eagles offense sputters against the Seahawks defense, and the offense hears a few boos in the second half.
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As Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom powers America’s economy, rattles its job market, and shapes its national security priorities, political leaders are struggling for traction on how the government should seek to engage the technology, if at all.
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Israeli military warning rattles coastal city Israeli strikes over southern Lebanon continued, especially in and around the battered cities of Tyre and Nabatiyeh.
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“Babbles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babbles. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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