garble

The inconsistent purity of the copper could garble transmissions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Users can report problematic incidents to safety specialists, block users, garble the voices of users they don’t know or remove themselves from the social experience.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

Image: Meta When you use Voice Mode to garble the speech of those around you an icon will appear above your display name to indicate that you can’t hear what strangers are saying.

From The Verge ● Jun. 14, 2022

Burton said even through his neighbor’s German accent, he heard him garble the phrase.

From Fox News ● Sep. 24, 2021

Behind me I heard the indistinct, aborted garble of a walkie-talkie; and, startled, I walked backwards into the Chief of Security.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Fetterman has been campaigning and speaking at public events, but speaks haltingly at times, garbles an occasional word and struggles to hear through background noise and quickly process what he’s hearing.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

Fetterman has been campaigning and speaking at public events but avoids reporters, speaks haltingly at times, garbles an occasional word and struggles to hear through background noise and quickly process what he’s hearing.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

Simlish, by contrast, is strung together with round, funny noises; emotional garbles; an uncannily human sound.

From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020

Raising money from one industry garbles your message on all.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2019

"I thought so, too," Ty says, so quiet the orange phone garbles his voice.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

He complained about Canadian banking laws and told a garbled story about some friend of his who supposedly couldn’t buy a Gulfstream jet in Canada.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

The group exhibition “To Share a Stomach” is a bit like the children’s game Telephone, in which a phrase, whispered from person to person, inevitably comes out a bit garbled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

You’re on Zoom, meeting with colleagues or catching up with a friend or trying to nail a job interview, when it happens: a freeze, garbled audio, a blank screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

Still, the October and November employment estimates are sure to be garbled by the deferred resignations of federal employees.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025

She said a sentence, and the water molecules twisted and morphed the sound, and when we both emerged, I had to guess what she’d said—had to find meaning in that garbled underwater language.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

MacLachlan’s doting dad, John, is handling retirement by trying to work on himself, specifically with Invisaligns, garbling his speech.

From Salon ● May 17, 2025

It uses a different mechanism than the Merck drug, which disables the virus by garbling its genome and has raised concerns about its potential to cause mutations in people’s cells.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021

Oppressively mirthless, “Outlaws” can nevertheless be enjoyed, after a fashion, as a surreal tapestry of macho garbling.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019

On the twice-as-expensive and open-back Ether Flows, the same can sometimes sound like distortion or garbling.

From The Verge ● Jul. 30, 2018

Later editions of her Surinam book were needlessly reorganized according to different classification systems, garbling and misrepresenting her findings.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman