mumbo jumbo

Example Sentences

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Instead, they’re saying, ‘Oh, we’re not recommending testing—hand-wave gesture mumbo jumbo science. … Oh, but you can test if you want to.’

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2022

The Fremen will move front and center in Part 2, and frankly there’s lots of weird mumbo jumbo to wade through in the coming chapters.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2021

Hootie is the chairman of the National and the obvious person to see about the membership and the mumbo jumbo.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 9, 2020

But he also shows a limited knowledge of operations, acknowledging that the amount of fuel used on take-off was quite a lot more than he expected and that some instructions to him were "mumbo jumbo".

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2018

“You told me that my father was alive. Now you’re giving me some New Age mumbo jumbo about him living in me.”

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben