mumble
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Peters started to mumble, sway and close his eyes as the camera panned away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
In my rare visits to modern art museums, I mumble: “This piece represents an indictment of societal norms.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
This wasn’t cause for concern — a lot of students mumble.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
“Never heard that before,” he said, because mumble, mumble, George-Washington-and-the-Sound-of-History roaring in his ears.
From Slate ● May 28, 2024
“Yes, I understand,” I mumble into the phone.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
She opens her mouth to speak, and then mumbles: "I just looked after the baby."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I am appalled,” Smokey Robinson told the Daily Mail in a phone call Wednesday before reportedly devolving into mumbles about being contacted at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Unfortunately for Fox, much of what Homan has to say is hard to understand, because he mumbles.
From Slate ● May 18, 2024
“This was the last real grunge hit,” a singer mumbles into the microphone before belting “Plowed” by Sponge.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
“And I don’t have to do...what I said,” mumbles Mrs. Bessermann.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
It took only a few words mumbled with a mouthful of burger for Tom Curtis to strike a blow against his biggest competitor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
Fed Chair Jerome Powell mumbled something about “ample reserves” and pointed back to 2019, when the repo market seized up overnight and forced the Fed to rush in with emergency cash.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
He awkwardly mumbled about sponsoring the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
“Two superstars from Japan aren’t enough?” the baseball world surely mumbled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
“Thank you for dinner,” she mumbled, even though she hadn’t eaten anything, and escaped out the door into the cold night.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Mollie Amkraut Mueller’s mumbling was starting to get on her husband’s nerves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
Over coffee at Cromwell’s Drugstore, the yet-to-be-discovered actors would discuss the mumbling, moving technique of another young actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
To test this idea, the researchers combined self-directed internal speech, described as quiet "mumbling," with a specialized working memory system.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026
There is part of me that wants to be happy about this mission, like Coleman is, instead of sourly mumbling about how the rocket is going up, and then back down.
From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2025
He was with Miss Mattie Lou—coughing and mumbling disconnected sentences picked out of the air from this or that time in their life.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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