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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of babble.

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Examples

  • Â The battles intersect, and Hal, Carol, Sinestro and Indigo combine their powers to blast theÂSur family into atoms (though not before Abin babbles that heÂKNOWS her …) ÂÂHal asks Sinestro pointedly who the girl was to him, and Sinestro replies coldly, “Nobody.”

    Review: Green Lantern #47 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Too good too be true moment: After dinner and “chatting” mostly one word babbles from me in French/English to my Cameroonian parents my host Papa offers me wine.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Cameroon Kate 2007

  • Too good too be true moment: After dinner and “chatting” mostly one word babbles from me in French/English to my Cameroonian parents my host Papa offers me wine.

    September 29, 2007 Cameroon Kate 2007

  • A talismanic remembrance to stand between my faith in your kindness for me and any 'babbles' (my grandfather's word) that may ever attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to shake it.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • When he's in the mood but doesn't know the tune or the words, he just kind of babbles in a musical way.

    Chattablogs 2009

  • He's had 11 months do so something, anything and, still, he just babbles on. and they won't until ...

    Obama: Banks 'don't get it' 2009

  • She has no idea what she is talking about, just babbles on, almost incoherently.

    Palin defends Obama birth certificate inquiries 2009

  • And Rosenthal, for all of the one-liners he babbles, never quite casts himself as the rube American being played by the slick Russians.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Exporting Raymond Marshall Fine 2011

  • Some podcasts have less production values than some blogs – someone just babbles off the top of their head, without putting the organization into it that actually writing would require.

    ENnie Nominees and Voting Guide « Geek Related 2009

  • "I've never seen a public official, representing any branch or office of the government with worse speaking skills … and the hoot is, he was hired to TALK to the press …. .he rambles, babbles, misquotes and generally is rude and sarcastic to members of the press."

    Obama press secretary chronically tardy 2009

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