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also gobbledegook
as in gibberish
language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions
cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be
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Recent Examples of gobbledygook
Apologies to the Lois Lane stans out there, but Adams is mostly on hand in these movies to deliver stern gobbledygook (something about isotopes?) and stare at Henry Cavill’s cheekbones.
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Roberts’s majority opinion is pure gobbledygook The Bruen decision placed an enormously high burden on any government lawyer trying to convince a court that any gun law is constitutional.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 June 2024
Others claimed the leaks were just artificial intelligence gobbledygook.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
The two exchange words in unintelligible gobbledygook, like Sims speaking their native language, Simlish.
—Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Roberts’s majority opinion is pure gobbledygook The Bruen decision placed an enormously high burden on any government lawyer trying to convince a court that any gun law is constitutional.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 June 2024
Others claimed the leaks were just artificial intelligence gobbledygook.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
The two exchange words in unintelligible gobbledygook, like Sims speaking their native language, Simlish.
—Emily Latimer, Longreads, 25 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbledygook
Noun
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These parables sometimes read like gibberish, talking both down and up to the reader.—
Book Marks
October 2,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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My last thought, here, beware of the endless gibberish about the hazards of rotations.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
24 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Beneath Nkrumah’s elaborate rhetoric, Mazrui argued, lay a simple drive to consolidate control through a one-party state that would inevitably empower only his most loyal—and least thoughtful—allies.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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If Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have attracted blowback for their individual writings of late, on the left side of the court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's rhetoric has also raised eyebrows for her slashing dissents.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Driving the news: The statement was published only in English on the Facebook page of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office — potentially another case of double-talk by Netanyahu.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
27 Sep. 2024
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The GOP Senate candidate in Arizona, whose brand is a combative, never-back-down MAGA politics, has adopted a position on the issue that is nearly indistinguishable from that of double-talking Democrats.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2024
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The Hurricanes were equally impressive on the other side of the ball, in a performance that will boost their College Football Playoff hype.—
Manny Navarro,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Stein said her new book, a literary novel about a TikTok hype house, went into a second printing before it was even published—possibly thanks to the approaches she’s learned from romance.—
Rebecca Ackermann,
The Atlantic,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Gobbledygook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbledygook. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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