stammer
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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
BBC Traitors star Jessie Stride says helping to raise awareness for those with a stammer "means more than any prize money".
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
The 28-year-old tells BBC Newsbeat she is "on a high" after being the first contestant to have a stammer.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
She'd probably love to have my stammer if she could have her leg back, and I wondered if being happy's about other people's misery.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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While Erika decries “retro sex negativity,” Elliot stammers, “My peers have not been well-served growing up in a time where nothing feels safe or OK.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“So I’m trying to like, I don’t know. Somebody who works out all the time and has a different type of, I don’t know,” he stammers.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
As someone who stammers occasionally, she found it less intimidating than a human.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 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
“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
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“Well, we really need to look at that,” Bass stammered before asking Raman if she was “getting ready to resign” from them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The clip featured 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. 19, 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
He felt good, speaking so well; usually around Mr: Sloat he stammered.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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But when they do, it’s like watching a magic trick play out before your eyes, leaving you so stunned you’re stammering, unable to utter even a single “How?”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
This sends the oh-so-polite Higgins into a stammering fit: “Not similar. Sorry. What happened here was much worse. Much, much worse. Much, much, much, much, much, I can’t stop saying much for some reason.”
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Patria had come in, acting very nervous, stammering about those boxes being full of new tools.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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