as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
their discussion about the complexities of international trade was gabble to those of us who didn't study that subject
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as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
heard her parents' guests still gabbling in the living room late into the night
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as in to chatter
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
during the filming of the party scene the extras were told to just gabble and act like they were having a great time
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Recent Examples of gabble
Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
Verb
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.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gabble
Verb
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Sirianni went to lengths this season to maintain the harmonious atmosphere between he and Hurts, spending hours during their bye week midseason chatting together and trying to sort out whatever issues there might be.—
Ben Morse,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Throughout the flight, the two chatted about their families and jobs, and the situation seemed settled.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Sure, there are endless sources chattering to the tabloid that this was maybe an homage to one of West’s album covers or a master plan by West to troll the world and get attention, one that Censori cosigns.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
3 Feb. 2025
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Carolina arrived and started chattering at you in Spanish.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
28 Jan. 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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Some local speaker will talk on the beauties of Hutchinson as a place to live, a place to trade and a place to visit.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Hanna, who has by this point joined the search efforts, talks to a woman who once dated Amanda’s current boyfriend, Viktor Malm, who had previously been sentenced and given a warning for assault as a teenager.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
Verb
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After months of cooing and babbling at a baby, my adult vocabulary felt distinctly lacking, and my wine terms all but forgotten.—
Brittani Sonnenberg,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Feb. 2025
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Sitting in her highchair in just a diaper, Townes babbled happily while attempting to chew the meat as juices ran down her body.—
Emma Aerin Becker,
People.com,
12 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Writing nonsense just to make word / article quotas.—
Harman Dayal,
The Athletic,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Baltimore Sun owes Baltimore Ravens placekicker Justin Tucker a headline apology and let this nonsense go.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Reuters reports that the product is finally ready for launch and can converse with users and respond to multiple prompts in a sequence.—
Jibin Joseph,
PCMAG,
6 Feb. 2025
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And there’s Jacinda, the anxious, workaholic partner and mother, whose self-doubt often gets the best of her behind closed doors (at which point Gayford becomes a character too, conversing with her from behind the camera).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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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
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“Gabble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gabble. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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