stammer
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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
For people like Hayley Rawlings, from Newport, who has had a stammer since she was four, this is a familiar feeling.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
Joe Dilling, a physiotherapy technical instructor from St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, has had a stammer since he was six-years-old.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
Ivy nodded, ready for June to grimace or stammer some excuse.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
Hayley said people with stammers were often mocked or villainised in the media and sometimes portrayed as having them as a result of trauma.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 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
“What? What are you talking about?” he stammers as he scrambles out to face me.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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 stammered inane commentary as my eyes tried to refocus.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
“Tim, I'm focused on the future,” Vance stammered before an ineffective attempt to deflect.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2024
Brooks, almost speechless, stammered, “I thought I couldn’t love you any more,” as Parton giggled onstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
“P-Peeves?” stammered Filch as though he had never heard the name before.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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
A leading charity said there was an "ignorance around stammering" which can "result in a range of responses from suspicion of lying, to laugher and ridicule".
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
And everyone’s like — ,” says Yeoh as she makes stammering noises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
That does, however, make it all the more difficult to look at America and resist the temptation to give one last stammering cry of, “That’s all folks!”
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
A stammering thirteen-year-old kid in deathliest England'll be the last thing on Mrs. Crommelynck's mind.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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