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
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
Meta is adding a new “voice mode” to Horizon Worlds that garbles any voice chat coming from non-friends on the VR social platform, the company has announced.
From The Verge ● Jun. 14, 2022
"I thought so, too," Ty says, so quiet the orange phone garbles his voice.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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
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
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
His eyelids weren’t working and his lips weren’t working either; the words sounded garbled even to him.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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
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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