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
Hayley, 34, said Jessie being good at the game and her stammer not being the focus gave people "something to relate to".
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 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
“Oh no, miss, we—we—” one of the other guards started to stammer.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
“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 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
Jacques stammers, backs away from him slowly, and then turns and runs inside to get me.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
“Tim, I'm focused on the future,” Vance stammered before an ineffective attempt to deflect.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2024
“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
“B-but how did you know that?” stammered Matthias.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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
Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025
That can include difficulties with learning new words, understanding non-verbal cues or stammering during speech.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
And everyone’s like — ,” says Yeoh as she makes stammering noises.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
If he’d tried to say anything, could he have gotten the words out without snorting or belching or stammering or doing something else that made him seem like a total dork?
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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