mumble
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The first was oracular and inscrutable, a chairman who bragged he had learned to mumble with great incoherence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Peters started to mumble, sway and close his eyes as the camera panned away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 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
“Not exactly,” I mumble, getting up to pour myself a glass of milk.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
“Why are you talking to me?” she mumbles in faux outrage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025
Unfortunately for Fox, much of what Homan has to say is hard to understand, because he mumbles.
From Slate ● May 18, 2024
“I am a solitary hero. I am alone. I am a solitary hero. Alone,” he mumbles to himself in voice-over.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
"I love mumbles and the Gower coast," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023
Ben’s mumbles and footsteps shift back and forth in the room.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
He mumbled something about more tests being needed and quickly left the room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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
But Mamdani’s speech was not the ritual of unity and healing they wanted and expected, and they were reduced to mumbled excuses about the microphone, his tone of voice and his inexperience.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
The people in shot mumbled and were drowned out by a blaring TV.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
Boys were nothing but a pain in the neck, I mumbled, for my ears and those of the two horses.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Mollie Amkraut Mueller’s mumbling was starting to get on her husband’s nerves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 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
The musician also found late-in-life notoriety through his family’s popular MTV reality series, “The Osbournes,” where he played himself — the mumbling, nearly comatose patriarch of a fully dysfunctional family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Elon Musk might be mumbling and hiding his pupils any time he gets near a stage, but that doesn't mean he lacks energy in the Oval Office.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025
Aunt Tuti shook her head nervously as she walked back to the hostess stand, mumbling before seating another guest.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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