garble
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Subtitles wouldn’t be the worst idea, though a sibling garble is part of their brand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Users can report problematic incidents to safety specialists, block users, garble the voices of users they don’t know or remove themselves from the social experience.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
Image: Meta When you use Voice Mode to garble the speech of those around you an icon will appear above your display name to indicate that you can’t hear what strangers are saying.
From The Verge ● Jun. 14, 2022
Burton said even through his neighbor’s German accent, he heard him garble the phrase.
From Fox News ● Sep. 24, 2021
Mandarax had been known to garble or misinterpret quest instructions and cues, which could easily lead to fatal mistakes.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Fetterman has been campaigning and speaking at public events, but speaks haltingly at times, garbles an occasional word and struggles to hear through background noise and quickly process what he’s hearing.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
Fetterman has been campaigning and speaking at public events but avoids reporters, speaks haltingly at times, garbles an occasional word and struggles to hear through background noise and quickly process what he’s hearing.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
Simlish, by contrast, is strung together with round, funny noises; emotional garbles; an uncannily human sound.
From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020
Raising money from one industry garbles your message on all.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2019
His figure grows staticky and his voice garbles.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
If it decides to do nothing, the firm can send an empty or deliberately garbled packet to Eurex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Still, the October and November employment estimates are sure to be garbled by the deferred resignations of federal employees.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
Mortified, she enters the studio in a garbled flurry of apologies.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
He didn’t immediately respond and when he did speak his words were garbled.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
“They don’t really make sense,” Piper said, “just garbled images, but I saw two giants, dressed alike. Maybe twins.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
On the twice-as-expensive and open-back Ether Flows, the same can sometimes sound like distortion or garbling.
From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2018
Kaling keeps garbling her line – “It’s amazing what can happen when you accept the love that’s given to you” – and apologises.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2018
Disembodied utterances jumped about the room, were piped out of different speakers and were sometimes superimposed, garbling any attempt at comprehension.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
They carried on their small talk, with Jessica garbling her words, until it was time to put the swab back in the see-through container.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2016
Later editions of her Surinam book were needlessly reorganized according to different classification systems, garbling and misrepresenting her findings.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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