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as in nonsense
unintelligible or meaningless talk
was so excited he could only talk gibberish
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as in gobbledegook
language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions
all I got from the doctor's gibberish was that I had a sore throat, which I already knew
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Recent Examples of gibberish
That's largely thanks to a winning voice-acting performance that forms the basis for some toe-tapping gibberish playing behind DK's Bananza transformations.
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ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025
This resource gap leads to a performance gap: Non-English LLMs are more likely to produce gibberish or inaccurate answers.
—Cecilia Hult, Fortune, 15 July 2025
Today's teen slang might seem like complete gibberish, but you may be surprised by how many terms echo phrases from the past.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 3 June 2025
Whether a language model responds to prompts with gibberish or uncanny fluency depends on another set of numbers called parameters, which describe the connections inside its neural network.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gibberish
ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025
This resource gap leads to a performance gap: Non-English LLMs are more likely to produce gibberish or inaccurate answers.
—Cecilia Hult, Fortune, 15 July 2025
Today's teen slang might seem like complete gibberish, but you may be surprised by how many terms echo phrases from the past.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 3 June 2025
Whether a language model responds to prompts with gibberish or uncanny fluency depends on another set of numbers called parameters, which describe the connections inside its neural network.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gibberish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gibberish
Noun
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The other side in a debate with common sense is nonsense.—
Danielle Kurtzleben,
NPR,
22 Oct. 2025
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That kind of no-nonsense mentality cuts right through all the nonsense and puts the focus on the work.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Now the babble about them is back.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.—
David Velasco,
Harpers Magazine,
18 Dec. 2023
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Meaningless gobbledygook to an outsider, yet powerful to those who know how to wield those sounds properly.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
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Bob Kring DeBary Congressional bill is full of greed The Great Big Beautiful Bill reads like 950 pages of of gobbledygook distilled into four words: Greedy, stingy, mean and short-sighted.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The anti-American side focuses exclusively on the tragedies, usually makes slavery the chief argument for the prosecution, and dismisses the triumphs as hypocritical rhetoric.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Karbler hopes the rhetoric begins to diminish.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
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So there are all those questions and rigmarole.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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No rigamarole or bureaucracy to navigate.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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There has been chatter that the Tigers would force Kelly to make staffing changes if the team continued to struggle, especially on offense.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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Does the subconscious chatter feel louder than usual?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Gibberish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibberish. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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