garble

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Unlike vaccines or antibodies that target the spike protein on the surface of the virus, molnupiravir works by introducing genetic errors that garble the coronavirus’s genetic code and stop it from making copies of itself.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021

In each of the examples below, unsplitting the infinitive either changes the sense or leads to garble: The policy of the Army at that time was to not send women into combat roles.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker