garble

The inconsistent purity of the copper could garble transmissions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

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

Waves, colored zigzags, a garble of sound: it’s the Montreal satellite station, being blocked.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

The BBC's science reporter Esme Stallard and other users received a garbled message with her alert.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2025

I only had to milk the final 6,760 possible points from this last garbled maze and then I would finally have the high score.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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