mumbo jumbo
Example Sentences
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“I was very disappointed to see that we sent you a formal legal document filled with legal mumbo jumbo as the next step,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Instead, they’re saying, ‘Oh, we’re not recommending testing—hand-wave gesture mumbo jumbo science. … Oh, but you can test if you want to.’
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2022
The Fremen will move front and center in Part 2, and frankly there’s lots of weird mumbo jumbo to wade through in the coming chapters.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
But he also shows a limited knowledge of operations, acknowledging that the amount of fuel used on take-off was quite a lot more than he expected and that some instructions to him were "mumbo jumbo".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2018
His skill in dressing these common-sense predictions up in astrological mumbo jumbo not only established his reputation in Graz, but got his salary increased to the full level appropriate for his post.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
