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stammer

[stam-er] / ˈstæm ər /


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Hansen would then make a dramatic entrance and interrogate the men, who would often stammer and bumble through the encounter before leaving.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

Now, Gellar has made a more ceremonious return, albeit with a frustrating stop-and-start stammer.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2026

For people like Hayley Rawlings, from Newport, who has had a stammer since she was four, this is a familiar feeling.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

Hayley, 34, said Jessie being good at the game and her stammer not being the focus gave people "something to relate to".

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

I stammer, stumbling for the right words to say.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender

Hayley said people with stammers were often mocked or villainised in the media and sometimes portrayed as having them as a result of trauma.

From BBC Jan. 12, 2026

Britt stammers in response: “I don’t always—you know, yes, I cook Sunday nights for dinner, but I was about to say, I don’t always crush it.”

From Slate Dec. 18, 2025

In interviews, she openly admitted to feeling inadequate in her signature halting, circular stammers.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2025

“I … I … I can’t ….go to work,” one stammers in German.

From Seattle Times May 28, 2024

“Umm, well,” Molly stammers, beginning to wonder the same thing, “I rang the buzzer a few times and then I just let myself in.”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

The clip showed influencer Jessie Yendle struggling to pronounce a sound as she stammered, before the repetition transitioned into the start of a popular TikTok dance track playing over footage of striker Serhou Guirassy.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2025

I stammered inane commentary as my eyes tried to refocus.

From Slate Jun. 22, 2025

Often speaking in Tajik through a translator, he answered questions about his biography quietly and stammered, according to Mediazona.

From New York Times Mar. 24, 2024

Then, after he thanked his family, his co-workers, and HBO, the internet’s favorite bachelor daddy stammered, “I’m going to have a panic attack and I’m going to leave.”

From Salon Feb. 25, 2024

“But, um, can—” Mini stammered as she stared yearningly at the headband.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

After one of his sketches, the actual Sid Caesar might ever so briefly, in a stammering voice, appear before a commercial break to say: “We’ll be right back.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

The humanity Stamp imbued in the tragic, stammering naval vessel crewman established Stamp as a talent to watch — with a Golden Globe Award for best male newcomer to prove it.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2025

A leading charity said there was an "ignorance around stammering" which can "result in a range of responses from suspicion of lying, to laugher and ridicule".

From BBC Mar. 13, 2025

Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2024

When she had finished she waited, as though for a reply, and I remember blushing scarlet, stammering some sort of thanks in return, and dropping both my gloves in my confusion.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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