garble

Subtitles wouldn’t be the worst idea, though a sibling garble is part of their brand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

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

It works by introducing errors that garble the genetic code of the virus and prevent it from making copies of itself.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

Burton said even through his neighbor’s German accent, he heard him garble the phrase.

From Fox News ● Sep. 24, 2021

Jock responded in a garble of excited Glaswegian syllables.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Error correction is already used in conventional computers and data transmission to fix garbles.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

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

"I thought so, too," Ty says, so quiet the orange phone garbles his voice.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

He complained about Canadian banking laws and told a garbled story about some friend of his who supposedly couldn’t buy a Gulfstream jet in Canada.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

The group exhibition “To Share a Stomach” is a bit like the children’s game Telephone, in which a phrase, whispered from person to person, inevitably comes out a bit garbled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

Conrad stormed through the door, laughing and shouting and bothering us, babbling so fast that some of his words were garbled.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

It uses a different mechanism than the Merck drug, which disables the virus by garbling its genome and has raised concerns about its potential to cause mutations in people’s cells.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021

Oppressively mirthless, “Outlaws” can nevertheless be enjoyed, after a fashion, as a surreal tapestry of macho garbling.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019

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

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