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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 has a stammer and in episode one said introducing herself was "one of the biggest tests ever".

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026

After an intentionally pregnant pause, Robyn’s vocal is chopped and edited into a confused stammer before she resumes the song’s mantra: “I-I-I, I like to go out, wear something nice and push!”

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026

“What did...did…,” he started to stammer out, because he needed to know what the criminal had done, what made her a criminal.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

In interviews, she openly admitted to feeling inadequate in her signature halting, circular stammers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

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

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

“But Mr. Wonka,” stammered Grandpa Joe, “do you really and truly mean that you are giving the whole of this enormous factory to little Charlie? After all....”

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl

The stammering from the first date became full-blown speechlessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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

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

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

I know Mrs. de Roo was saying, See, you can read aloud without stammering.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell