as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
the burble of babies can be so endearing
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Recent Examples of burble
Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
The sporty coupe burbles, crackles and pops with each downshift, a felicitous experience for driver and passenger alike.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2023
Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
The layered beat builds like a dream, swirling burbling synth melodies, breathy intonations, and pulsing rhythms into synchrony.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Our bandleader has a wayfaring meander that dances in percussive bursts while his fellow players burble, simmer and sparkle.
—Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
The sporty coupe burbles, crackles and pops with each downshift, a felicitous experience for driver and passenger alike.
—Morgan Korn, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2023
Verb
This feels partly tied to a burbling issue: The Leafs haven’t been as stingy defensively of late.
—Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
The layered beat builds like a dream, swirling burbling synth melodies, breathy intonations, and pulsing rhythms into synchrony.
—Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burble
Verb
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Initially this seemed like a boon, and people chattered excitedly about how a notes call with Netflix execs would not leave you with myriad non-negotiable changes — for a time its appeal supplanted the Promised Land of HBO.—
Alex Levy,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2025
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Young people stand in between the gravestones, chattering, laughing and digging with shovels.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.—
Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 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But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that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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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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First off, the bulk of the trailer is Shrek and company scrolling through fantasy TikTok courtesy of the magic mirror, which shows dancing Shrek, shirtless Shrek and other nonsense, apparently posted by Pinocchio.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Spouted a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theories about who’s getting Social Security benefits.—
Brian Barrett,
WIRED,
20 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The couple went into his restaurant, Jinja Bar & Bistro, in the early 2000s, and ended up chatting with Lanham and the other owners, Lanham said.—
Nathan Solis,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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Stopping on the red carpet to chat with E!, Saldaña praised the fashion duo for always putting creativity first.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The rain had tapered down overnight, just softly pattering on rooftops by Friday morning.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Feb. 2025
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The rain kept pattering down, and the pygmies began to call each other in a long chirrup.—
Jessica Camille Aguirre,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The whole blabbing into a microphone is the easy part.—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
19 Feb. 2025
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Post Malone blabbing like a rockstar November 19, 2024: Get ready to rock, rave, and possibly even rodeo at this year’s Coachella.—
Justin Curto,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Burble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burble. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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