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stammer

[stam-er] / ˈstæm ər /


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Hansen would then make a dramatic entrance and interrogate the men, who would often stammer and bumble through the encounter before leaving.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

Now, Gellar has made a more ceremonious return, albeit with a frustrating stop-and-start stammer.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2026

Jessie Stride, another contestant on this series of The Traitors, has a stammer and spoke on the show about struggling to pronounce her own name.

From BBC Jan. 22, 2026

The 28-year-old tells BBC Newsbeat she is "on a high" after being the first contestant to have a stammer.

From BBC Jan. 19, 2026

I tumbled down into reality, hot-handed and self-conscious, with my face aflame, and began to stammer my apologies.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

As someone who stammers occasionally, she found it less intimidating than a human.

From BBC Mar. 4, 2026

Britt stammers in response: “I don’t always—you know, yes, I cook Sunday nights for dinner, but I was about to say, I don’t always crush it.”

From Slate Dec. 18, 2025

“I … I … I can’t ….go to work,” one stammers in German.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

Ray Fisher incarnates, with natural majesty, the brawn and bravado of Muhammad Ali; Edwin Lee Gibson shambles and stammers as Stepin Fetchit while retaining the dignity of a canny survivor.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2023

“Umm, well,” Molly stammers, beginning to wonder the same thing, “I rang the buzzer a few times and then I just let myself in.”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The clip showed influencer Jessie Yendle struggling to pronounce a sound as she stammered, before the repetition transitioned into the start of a popular TikTok dance track playing over footage of striker Serhou Guirassy.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2025

“I don’t think the American people are watching and thinking any of these people won,” Watters stammered out.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2024

Often speaking in Tajik through a translator, he answered questions about his biography quietly and stammered, according to Mediazona.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 2024

Then, after he thanked his family, his co-workers, and HBO, the internet’s favorite bachelor daddy stammered, “I’m going to have a panic attack and I’m going to leave.”

From Salon Feb. 25, 2024

‘I am afraid I am only in everybody’s way,’ he stammered; ‘but I should like to do anything I could, you know.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The stammering from the first date became full-blown speechlessness.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2026

After one of his sketches, the actual Sid Caesar might ever so briefly, in a stammering voice, appear before a commercial break to say: “We’ll be right back.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

That’s why, despite all of our biological programming and lived experience, a random question or interaction with a child will sometimes knock you on your back and leave you stammering.

From Salon Nov. 5, 2025

Then we return to Clay stammering: “I thought you wanted one? No?”

From New York Times Jan. 19, 2024

The music died away in a nervous stammering of drums.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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