1
as in drooling
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 chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
the little girls babbled contentedly for the whole ride home
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Recent Examples of babbling
Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Leon leaned down to inspect how the cement bags were holding up against the babbling water.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Firstly, you may be awoken by birds chirping, a view that looks into a lush forest, and a babbling fountain.
—Dalya Benor, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2024
The babbling creek alongside that home is an artery that’s repeatedly raged with floodwaters in the past few weeks.
—Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
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Noun
Moore, even in her 90s, is quite the babbling brook — twinkly and self-possessed, a calm pathological narcissist, the kind of person who spins out her life like a novel, making stories she’s told a million times sound spontaneous.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Leon leaned down to inspect how the cement bags were holding up against the babbling water.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Firstly, you may be awoken by birds chirping, a view that looks into a lush forest, and a babbling fountain.
—Dalya Benor, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2024
The babbling creek alongside that home is an artery that’s repeatedly raged with floodwaters in the past few weeks.
—Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for babbling
Verb
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After chatting to a voice LLM chatbot like ChatGPT, going back to trying to have a conversational user experience with Alexa (or Siri, or whoever) is frustrating.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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At the time, Faustino was chatting with PEOPLE at the 30th annual Race to Erase MS gala and addressed why his former costar was not in attendance at the event.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Create Polls and Ask Questions Polls get people talking, and LinkedIn’s algorithm rewards it.—
William Arruda,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
3 Jan. 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
Noun
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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
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Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
5 June 2023
Noun
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There has been a lot of chatter on the internet and social media in recent weeks that ALDI’s Summit Diet Cola is just as good, or even better, than the original.—
Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
3 May 2025
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His dramas, rarely built on tightly interlocking shards of plot, are instead propelled by ambient forces: blasts of music, gusts of chatter.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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“Babbling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babbling. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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