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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

“Of course I know,” I say, though it sounds like garble for obvious reasons.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

High-dimensional sphere packings are related to the error-correcting techniques used to fix garbles in the transmission of information.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 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

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

Greenspan delighted in his ability to keep markets and politicians on their toes by wrapping his views in complex, garbled syntax.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

The anchor offered a garbled 90-second monologue that credited and blamed both sides — if it said anything at all.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

Still, the October and November employment estimates are sure to be garbled by the deferred resignations of federal employees.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

Fyrian called in his dream-voice, but his words were garbled by the smoke.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

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

The droning whir of the motor, garbling as it chews away stubble, is far from calming.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2015

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