mumbo jumbo

Example Sentences

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“I was very disappointed to see that we sent you a formal legal document filled with legal mumbo jumbo as the next step,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

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

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2023

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

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 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