garbled
Example Sentences
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The garbled Russian/German/snooty America mix sounds utterly ridiculous.
From Los Angeles Times
At one point in the video interview, when Arquette’s audio was garbled by a digital glitch, Cox joked, “It’s been so long, I can’t understand him anymore.”
From New York Times
They tested this by playing recordings in which the speech from the story had been garbled, resulting in gibberish that “sounded” like Hungarian or Spanish.
From Scientific American
He had bizarre, silly traditions and garbled American idioms with an exaggerated, mysterious accent.
From New York Times
Four months later, Mr. Trump attacked Mr. Sussmann by name in a slightly garbled pair of Twitter posts, trying to tie him to the Clinton campaign and to the Steele dossier.
From New York Times
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