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

Relatively quickly, he returned to his familiar slippery garble with a hit so ubiquitous it felt like a memory of how things once were.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

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

What’s left after content-filtering is a kind of garble that preserves intonation, pitch, and rhythm but erases content.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Some customers have lambasted the bots on social media, while others prefer them to a garbled voice squawking from a speaker box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

But folk I talk to in Whitehall think the president has garbled some of the details of what the leaders discussed privately.

From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026

Then the loud cry of the seagulls turned into garbled gibberish as they tugged at his shirt and shoes.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen

MacLachlan’s doting dad, John, is handling retirement by trying to work on himself, specifically with Invisaligns, garbling his speech.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

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

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