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garble

[gahr-buhl] / ˈgɑr bəl /


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Subtitles wouldn’t be the worst idea, though a sibling garble is part of their brand.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 16, 2025

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

Error correction is already used in conventional computers and data transmission to fix garbles.

From New York Times Jun. 14, 2023

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

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

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

Some customers have lambasted the bots on social media, while others prefer them to a garbled voice squawking from a speaker box.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

But folk I talk to in Whitehall think the president has garbled some of the details of what the leaders discussed privately.

From BBC Mar. 16, 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

Ben’s words are garbled, but I still hear them.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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

Kaling keeps garbling her line – “It’s amazing what can happen when you accept the love that’s given to you” – and apologises.

From The Guardian Mar. 15, 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




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