as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
the burble of babies can be so endearing
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Recent Examples of burble
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 May 2025
Set on six acres within Kelley Park and modeled after the Korakuen Garden in Okayama, Japan, the Friendship Garden has koi ponds, wooden footbridges, burbling waterfalls, and paths designed for more for strolling than power walking.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
There are a handful of moments where synthesized washes burble and soar, the net effect of arena lights splashing onto a crowd of thousands.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The song co-produced by Lorde and Jim-E Stack — her main collaborator on the upcoming Virgin album due out on June 27 — builds from the alluring, subtle bass accompaniment to a noisy rumble as burbling keyboards and distant drums bubble up alongside cello from Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 May 2025
Set on six acres within Kelley Park and modeled after the Korakuen Garden in Okayama, Japan, the Friendship Garden has koi ponds, wooden footbridges, burbling waterfalls, and paths designed for more for strolling than power walking.
—David Hochman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Verb
The center of the flower comes out for faster water flow, or remove it altogether if your cat would rather drink from a lower, springlike burble.
—Simon Hill, Wired News, 31 Mar. 2025
There are a handful of moments where synthesized washes burble and soar, the net effect of arena lights splashing onto a crowd of thousands.
—Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burble
Verb
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As the kids chattered away over snacks, the co-founders spoke about their own formative experiences growing up with summer camps and later attending HBCUs.—
Rachel Wegner,
The Tennessean,
24 July 2025
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Families chattered in the waiting area, volunteers asked shoppers their preferences and Judy Freebus, speaking Russian, was engaged in a bilingual conversation with an elderly Ukrainian woman at the check-in station.—
Sophie Levenson,
Chicago Tribune,
20 July 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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While countless users dismissed the theories as nonsense, the dog pile had begun causing the hot takes to go viral.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
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Bon Jovi’s team dismissed word of the tour as nonsense.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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While Hopp said some people just took the fans and moved on, others stopped to chat with the Soroptimists who were accompanied by Yusef Mill, co-chair of the San Diego Advisory Council’s Community Committee.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
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But Noel, who like his younger sibling singer Liam, is simply mad about football, called in to his favorite drive-time sports chat show, talkSPORT with Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent, to chat about Man City, and, of course, how things are going with the formerly battling brothers.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The rain was pattering on the windowpanes all night.—
Philip Metres
July 30,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Momoa wore black pants and a black shirt with his hip-length cape featuring a red and yellow triangular pattered.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
22 July 2025
Verb
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But Cirie ended up telling her husband, and her husband blabbed to Trish.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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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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“Burble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burble. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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