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
BBC Traitors star Jessie Stride says helping to raise awareness for those with a stammer "means more than any prize money".
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
“It hurts, it hurts,” I stammer as loud as I can to get his attention.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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"I've had lots of people with stammers reach out, which is just really nice," says Jessie.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 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 know what it means to be cold and hungry,” Hackman stammers as his Harold the blind man ushers Peter Boyle’s monster into his shack.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
“I … I … I can’t ….go to work,” one stammers in German.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
Dean Wilkins clears his throat, stammers for a second, and then says that yes, by all means, I am welcome to return and sit my exams.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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He stammered through hastily filmed videos asking for small-dollar donations as his campaign sought to convert the new interest around him into donors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
I stammered inane commentary as my eyes tried to refocus.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025
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
“W-well,” stammered Rosa, her face the picture of flabbergasted.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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But this stammering, rather dull chap doesn’t come across as a genius.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
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
We loved him as the stammering bookseller who captures Julia Roberts’ heart in “Notting Hill” or the feckless non-marrying type in “Four Weddings and a Funeral.”
From Salon ● May 11, 2024
Then he turned his face aside and said, stammering, “But tell me where you will go, what you will do.”
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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