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

Boris Johnson has accused anti-vaccine campaigners of speaking "mumbo jumbo" when it comes to coronavirus jabs.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2022

Let’s drop the pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo and just cut taxes for parents.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

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

Her first course of action was to march to the asylum and demand that her children be turned over to her without any official mumbo jumbo.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy