garble

The inconsistent purity of the copper could garble transmissions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

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

His figure grows staticky and his voice garbles.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

Air traffic control communications reviewed by BBC Verify are largely garbled and full of interference so no meaningful conversation can be heard about the crash as it unfolded.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

But in the confusion of the moment his command was garbled, and nearly 650 workers clambered onto buses and immediately evacuated to Fukushima Daini, about 6 miles away.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

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

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