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
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
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“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
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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
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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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