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
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
Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it’s the Montreal satellite station, being blocked.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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
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
His figure grows staticky and his voice garbles.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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It came in a brief and garbled email.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 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
Her words were garbled, like she was talking underwater, but I finally understood.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
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
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
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