unintelligible
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As last year’s wildfires multiplied, still 0% contained, field reporters — tasked with articulating the unintelligible on camera — grieved alongside Los Angeles in real time.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
The final five minutes were almost unintelligible, marked almost entirely by crosstalk, as Baier refused to let Harris speak uninterrupted.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2024
For example, during a rally in Montana on Friday, Trump appears to “glitch” and pause as he searches for words and then makes unintelligible noises and strange utterances.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2024
After a corrupted chip rendered Voyager 1’s transmissions unintelligible in November 2023, engineers nursed the spacecraft back to health.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 2024
Once upon a happier time this sentence would have been unintelligible to the Prime Minister, but he was wiser now.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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