How to Use garble in a Sentence
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When there’s noise in the whale’s water, like a boat sound, some of the whale songs get garbled.
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Brian Resnick,
Vox,
6 Dec. 2018
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Although what is said next is garbled, students can be heard gasping.
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Matt Stevens,
New York Times,
24 Oct. 2017
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Siri often doesn't hear me correctly, so my texts get garbled.
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Cyrus Farivar,
Ars Technica,
3 Sep. 2018
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At one point Justice Stephen Breyer's line was briefly garbled.
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Anchorage Daily News,
5 May 2020
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My father’s words can sometimes be garbled, especially when the hour grows late.
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Han Ong,
The New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2023
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But words are often garbled or obscured by music or other people talking.
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Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas,
chicagotribune.com,
12 Sep. 2017
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Was the syntax so garbled that a target couldn't possibly understand it?
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CBS News,
13 May 2017
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The outer envelope uses the same strategy to garble the voter’s name.
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IEEE Spectrum,
26 Oct. 2016
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The not-so-great aspect of the low-tech shows are video conference interviews that get glitchy, as voices get garbled or out of sync, and images freeze up.
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oregonlive,
24 Apr. 2020
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Langyi scores hosts on stage presence and other attributes, and will dock a host’s pay for garbling the name of the happy couple or other infractions.
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Chao Deng,
WSJ,
16 July 2017
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The accents were not a problem when the actors spoke slowly, but when Rose was excited or angry, her rapid pace garbled some of her lines.
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Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
Pomerado News,
24 July 2019
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After the connection was garbled several times, the team brought his testimony to a cell phone, which then promptly dropped.
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William Earl,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2023
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The volume on the radio hadn’t been turned high enough, and communications from the pit were garbled beyond the point of comprehension.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
Ars Technica,
3 July 2017
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Texts may be misread, communication could get garbled over the phone, or that work email might accidentally go unsent.
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Tarot Astrologers,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2023
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Instead, any user whose message was lost or garbled because of a collision would simply try again after a random time interval.
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Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Mar. 2023
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Sometimes Flux repeats or garbles words, and sometimes new words are confabulated into place.
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Benj Edwards,
Ars Technica,
12 Sep. 2024
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The league’s initial response to the Morey fiasco was garbled, vague, and contradictory.
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Nathaniel Friedman,
The New Republic,
11 Oct. 2019
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The president garbled several accounts of his own very notable policy achievements.
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Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
28 June 2024
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The recording was garbled at times, the newspaper reported, but a man told the authorities that a woman had fallen into a creek and couldn’t be pulled from the water.
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Ashley Remkus | [email protected],
al,
14 Oct. 2019
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More complicated is finding a place to stay, catching shoplifters, trusting her new highbrow friends and having any phone conversations cut short or garbled by bad connections.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2024
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Telephone’ in which original meaning becomes hopelessly garbled with every successive re-tweet.
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Sarah Jones,
New Republic,
7 Feb. 2018
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Noisy environments and interruptions garbled the audio or led to the services transcribing voices of people in the office who weren’t in our meeting.
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Danielle Abril,
Washington Post,
17 Aug. 2023
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But Dersh garbled the point — which also occasionally happens, even to those of us who are not 81 and lack the professor’s vigor.
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Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2020
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Every appointment is an act of translation, a game of telephone, critical messages potentially garbled by the setting alone.
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Eric Boodman,
STAT,
21 May 2024
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After the exhilarating opening, the play begins to sag under the weight of lots of exposition, sometimes garbled by accents that come and go -- from adult and child actors alike.
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Andrea Simakis,
cleveland.com,
9 Dec. 2017
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And, for a long, innocent moment, everything about this arrangement will seem surreal to the black child, distorted, like a message that has somehow been garbled in the delivery.
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Danielle Jackson,
Longreads,
11 May 2018
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Each mathematical language eloquently captures certain aspects of quantum states, but at the price of garbling some other quantum property.
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Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
19 Oct. 2023
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An enthusiast in an English coastal town is trying to get his homemade radio to work, and picking up transmissions from warships in the Channel, garbled voices out of the air.
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Tom Shippey,
WSJ,
29 Sep. 2017
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Sponsor is not responsible for votes that are lost, late, deleted, garbled, corrupted, misdelivered, or misdirected.
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RedEye Chicago,
2 Aug. 2017
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This dynamic environment is always changing and could easily garble radio signals coming through our atmosphere.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
10 Oct. 2019
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The field needed next-generation versions that could fix garbles in the code in a precise and controlled way.
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Carolyn Y. Johnson,
Washington Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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Tinkerbell is a man in a white tutu, who speaks in a garble impossible to understand.
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Susan Dunne,
courant.com,
5 June 2017
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His tired garble in France, however, is something different.
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Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2026
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Indeed, Messina had given birth to a tool that would infiltrate our vernacular, aggregate conversations and, yes, fill screens with unnecessary, meaningless garble.
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Matt Stevens,
The Seattle Times,
27 Aug. 2017
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Rapper Dudley Perkins, Muldrow's musical collaborator on previous ventures, at one point took to the stage to offer a short soliloquy that was nearly impossible to decipher due, once again, to a garble of overblown sound.
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Howard Reich,
chicagotribune.com,
3 June 2017
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