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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 hairdresser doesn't feel her game was impacted by her stammer as the other contestants would be patient and allow her to speak her mind.

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

If I stammer with Dad, he gets that face he had when he got his Black & Decker Workmate home and found it was minus a crucial packet of screws.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

“I … I … I can’t ….go to work,” one stammers in German.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

"I'm—I'm—" Claudine stammers out, a deep blush climbing through her entire body.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

“I don’t think the American people are watching and thinking any of these people won,” Watters stammered out.

From Slate Sep. 11, 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

He felt good, speaking so well; usually around Mr: Sloat he stammered.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

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

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

Talking 'bout my stammer's nearly as embarrassing as stammering itself, but it's okay with her.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell




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