mumble
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The singles, more concerned about their romantic fate than patriotic duty, mumble through the lyrics.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
This wasn’t cause for concern — a lot of students mumble.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
He normalized the idea that you can mumble stuff and do nothing.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2024
I kind of mumble it as I turn—all too aware of Jonesy.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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
“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
Without glancing up, he mumbles, like it’s one word, “HiAuntieLaundry.”
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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
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
“I got what I wanted,” the singer mumbled, by his brother’s account.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
But he mumbled a lot and usually had to repeat something two or three times to be understood.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
In a statement read to jurors, another passenger, Keirah Lee-Oakman, said a male entered the train, sat down and "appeared to be talking and mumbling to himself".
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
I hear myself mumbling to my son, “I guess,” and buy the toy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
He then patted her hand, mumbling, “Good job.”
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 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
I made some sort of soothing reply, but with the licence of age she did not listen, hobbling away mumbling that it was her fault.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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