as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
the burble of babies can be so endearing
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Recent Examples of 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
David Hochman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Yet there was an ideological war burbling underneath, all revolving around the question of what government exists to do.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
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Noun
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.
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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.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for burble
Noun
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Now the babble about them is back.—
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Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.—
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Now Carmelo can be seen at every Syracuse game, chattering constantly to Kiyan and his teammates.—
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Insects chatter in the trees in waves and pulses in the heat.—
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
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But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that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.—
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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.—
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Erinys doesn't prate about democracy or social betterment but simply guards oil pipelines.—
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Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.—
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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.—
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Perennially delighted and deeply uncool, Tascioni gabbles about the wonders of the city while her interlocutors roll their eyes at her lack of sophistication and taste.—
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Crucially, the eggs were fittingly fluffy, none of that rubbery nonsense that plague lesser burrito slingers.—
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All’s Fair is girlboss nonsense.—
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“Burble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burble. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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