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
“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
“Excuse me ma’am,” I mumble as she cuts her eyes at me.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
“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
For some, Stan is the pioneer of mumble rap - a loosely defined rap genre where the singer mumbles rhymes without any emphasis on lyricism - in India.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2023
“This was the last real grunge hit,” a singer mumbles into the microphone before belting “Plowed” by Sponge.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
“That was a long time ago,” he mumbles.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
After a few more tense moments of silence, he mumbled under his breath and left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
He mumbled to himself, “Got some red paste, the tea tray...maybe he likes tea...”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Exiting the event, Shulman shuffled out with the crowd, headed next to a TikTok Grammys party, mumbling to a fellow attendee that his company seemed to be “persona non grata.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 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 big man returned fairly soon after that, mumbling something about drinking too much water and about Barkley talking way too long when he really needed to cut to a break.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
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
She shook her head and said something to me, but she was mumbling.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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