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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

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

It affects 8% of children and at least 1% of adults, according to stammer charity STAMMA, with some people not declaring it or realising they have one.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

Word after word, verse after verse, she joined in, Mama who could not speak four words, singing the beautiful lines without a stammer.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“So I’m trying to like, I don’t know. Somebody who works out all the time and has a different type of, I don’t know,” he stammers.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

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

“Uh, that’s not what I meant...that’s not...,” he stammers.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

The clip featured 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. 19, 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

“I don’t want to be in it,” he stammered.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 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

“I didn’t mean you...I mean, I didn’t know how it worked here,” stammered Gregor.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

Frazier’s natural skill as an “Entertainment Tonight” host helped smooth the transitions to Malkin’s stammering and distracting voice, but their worthless gushing detracted from the moment.

From Salon Jan. 12, 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

Meanwhile, the resentful girl struggles to label Tim’s role, stammering to Jamie that she lives with, “my partner, my Tim, my boy-partner Tim.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2025

I didn't want to dent the morning's shine by stammering, so I tried to slip by Mr. Castle without being seen.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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