mumbo jumbo

Example Sentences

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“It is a lot of legal mumbo jumbo.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Anyone who does would know that clemency cannot be rightly characterized as a form of “legal mumbo jumbo.”

From Salon

Sometimes, the words of a court room amount to mumbo jumbo to the occasional visitor.

From BBC

You’ve been quoted as saying that architecture is too often treated as a fine art, “delicately wrapped in mumbo jumbo,” when in fact it incorporates disciplines including science, math, and engineering.

From New York Times

He was speaking his usual mumbo jumbo about hardcore software-writing and “the code stack” — but, in essence, he was right.

From Washington Post