GARBLED Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

garbled

verb

Definition of garbled

past tense of garble

as in distorted

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent

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as in filtered

to remove usually visible impurities from garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe

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Our congressional districts were among the most distorted in America.

— Larry Hogan, Baltimore Sun, 29 Oct. 2026
Americans may disagree on solutions, but many share the belief that financial incentives have distorted the system beyond recognition.

— Scott Levenson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of distorted

Verb

From there, promising athletes were filtered into regional training centers, which further funnelled the very best to INSEP.

— Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
If a woman’s symptoms are filtered through assumptions about her weight or mental health, and the true story of her pain is omitted, AI may learn and reproduce how the woman is framed in the record.

— Jennifer Silva, STAT, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of filtered

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The holdout juror, Michael Péguy Desronvil, who came forward after facing public scrutiny, has said his position was misrepresented by some of his fellow jurors who spoke to the press.

— Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2026
Researchers studying false online information have been worried about the potential for such accusations to recirculate as normal glitches get misrepresented.

— Jane Lytvynenko, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of misrepresented

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The United States is slow-walking a democratic process that should have started in January, the day after an American military operation extracted dictator Nicolás Maduro.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026
Each active from the farm is custom-extracted with low temperatures through a biotech partner.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of extracted

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The Iran war has raised oil prices, pushing up prices for fuels like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, which are refined from crude oil, economists said.

— Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
Across 128 sessions, Claude gradually developed and refined a wiki using information from those documents.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of refined

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