mumbling

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Exiting the event, Shulman shuffled out with the crowd, headed next to a TikTok Grammys party, mumbling to a fellow attendee that his company seemed to be “persona non grata.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

To test this idea, the researchers combined self-directed internal speech, described as quiet "mumbling," with a specialized working memory system.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

The musician also found late-in-life notoriety through his family’s popular MTV reality series, “The Osbournes,” where he played himself — the mumbling, nearly comatose patriarch of a fully dysfunctional family.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025

Elon Musk might be mumbling and hiding his pupils any time he gets near a stage, but that doesn't mean he lacks energy in the Oval Office.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2025

They line up silently, eyes downcast, bony fingers counting the beads of the rosary, lips mumbling prayers.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya