garbling

verb

present participle of garble
1
as in distorting
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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2
as in filtering
to remove usually visible impurities from garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for garbling
  1. distorting
  2. filtering
  3. misrepresenting
  4. clarifying
  5. extracting
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  • The least costly and least distorting way to solve the entire financing gap is to extend Social Security's base beyond paychecks to capital income -- capital gains, dividends, interest and pass-through business income.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Is realism based only on minds untouched by illness or some other distorting factor, or at least not so touched that that mind becomes, as my grandmother’s is, unbound?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Definition of distorting
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  • Your liver is responsible for breaking down toxins and filtering them out of the body, essentially detoxifying you from harmful substances and chemicals.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 22 July 2026
  • Of course your brain will start aggressively filtering things.
    — Kelly Samuel, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of filtering
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  • Jurors also found the NRA liable for mismanaging assets and misrepresenting information in its tax filings as a nonprofit charitable organization.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
  • Plaintiffs alleged that the event promoters were negligent in failing to secure required permits, not providing adequate security or crowd control and misrepresenting the event as safe for families, according to the statement.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
Definition of misrepresenting
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  • Establishing Clear Ground Rules With Reporters The importance of clarifying standards is critical.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • For lawyers working to defend and expand anti-BDS legislation in court, PEN America’s new boycott position is clarifying.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Definition of clarifying
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  • They’ve been seen, for example, corralling schools of rays, creating waves to push penguins from ice blocks and extracting the livers of white sharks.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 23 July 2026
  • Previously, extracting valuable data from customer conversations was cumbersome.
    — Anna Convery, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of extracting
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