as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
the burble of babies can be so endearing
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Recent Examples of burble
Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Every inch of The White Lotus’s Thailand resort induces a mix of envious longing and burbling queasiness.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
What weird burble in the zeitgeist has somehow manifested in lines of identical Chalamets?
—Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Noun
Should Democratic incumbents be worried right now about these sort of burbling up frustrations?
—Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Every inch of The White Lotus’s Thailand resort induces a mix of envious longing and burbling queasiness.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
The drag setting requires raised voices for conversation, while normal and sport settings recede to the background burble V8 fans will recognize.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
What weird burble in the zeitgeist has somehow manifested in lines of identical Chalamets?
—Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burble
Verb
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Groups outside were chattering over Peronis and cigarettes.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
11 June 2025
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Locals chattered over $3 glasses of kir, while the younger set messed about in kayaks or swung from a rope into the cool green river.—
Rachel Howard,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
Verb
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But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2023
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For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2018
Noun
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And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.—
Jennifer Rubin,
Washington Post,
16 July 2024
Noun
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All of this exploring and staying open and slow-burn nonsense left us with half the villa coupled up but stagnant — unwilling to stray but unwilling to grow — and the other half hopelessly single.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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Sadly, the label would have none of that experimental nonsense.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2025
Verb
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As that rare thing, a young female naturist happy to chat on camera, Saoirse Newhouse has been in demand with the press at the opening ceremony.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
19 June 2025
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One history chat app let users chat with simulated historical figures, including Hitler and Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.—
Steven Stalinsky,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Verb
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The sky was gray, and rain pattered down through the leaves.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
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Timbaland’s programming is at warp level, with pattering percussion across drum heads, yielding a crowd-pleaser that Elliott carries at a galloping pace.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Vulture,
11 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Zac also blabs that Bret and Demi have skeletons in their closet and are working to get a cease-and-desist.—
Olivia Crandall,
Vulture,
18 May 2025
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Unfortunately, The Croat, being a complete and total tattletale, blabbed to The Dama that Negan had hesitated.—
Charlie Mason,
TVLine,
11 May 2025
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“Burble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burble. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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