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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of garble.

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Examples

  • For that matter, why do you think that severing the CC "garbles" signals?

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Cowen garbles it a bit, but he seems to get around to understanding that if this system was left to evolve as-is, it would end up at “everyone will receive means-tested subsidized vouchers for regulated private insurance”.

    Matthew Yglesias » 2017 2010

  • Quiet and intense, he speaks in a halting manner, sometimes garbles his sentences and lacks a smooth personal touch.

    Minn. governor fights GOP on taxes for wealthy 2011

  • Happy Mondays – Do It Better Mr Manshambles himself, Shaun William Ryder, garbles a long list of some things or other, but I was too busy doing a Bez to notice.

    Readers recommend: Songs about pubs and bars 2010

  • Sorry, that sounds like the stuff of the slot I find most irritating of all on any radio station I've ever listened to, Lesley Garret's Sixty Second Opera on Classic FM, wherein she garbles an entire operatic plot in the alloted time proving perhaps in fact that there really is no need to sit through three hours of it?

    The Turn - Luigi Pirandello 2007

  • In 2006 Granholm got some experience debating a person (Dick DeVos) who garbles sentences and spewing right wing talking points, so she will be a good coach in this regard.

    Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

  • Sorry, that sounds like the stuff of the slot I find most irritating of all on any radio station I've ever listened to, Lesley Garret's Sixty Second Opera on Classic FM, wherein she garbles an entire operatic plot in the alloted time proving perhaps in fact that there really is no need to sit through three hours of it?

    44 entries from December 2007 2007

  • Sorry, that sounds like the stuff of the slot I find most irritating of all on any radio station I've ever listened to, Lesley Garret's Sixty Second Opera on Classic FM, wherein she garbles an entire operatic plot in the alloted time proving perhaps in fact that there really is no need to sit through three hours of it?

    The Turn - Luigi Pirandello 2007

  • In fact, she garbles the basic distinction between climate and weather -- climate science 101, essentially.

    Chris Mooney: If Attacking Al Gore Was a Movie, It Would be Say Anything 2008

  • But Harris also garbles Palin's likely religious beliefs, under the rubric that all religion is suspect.

    Bruce Wilson: A Heartbeat Away, or Why Palin's Churches Matter 2008

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