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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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My last thought, here, beware of the endless gibberish about the hazards of rotations.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
24 Aug. 2025
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Her toddler, who was almost two, leaned over the railing and called out to the agents in baby gibberish, but the agents did not acknowledge her.—
Jordan Salama,
New Yorker,
25 July 2025
Noun
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No rigamarole or bureaucracy to navigate.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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The bust was followed by months of prolonged legal rigmarole.—
John Semley,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Between February and May, when Dudek’s tenure ended, his erratic rhetoric and decisions routinely made front-page news.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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By moving from rhetoric to large-scale military action, Maduro is signaling that Venezuela will fight drug trafficking on its own terms while resisting Washington's narrative of Caracas as a narco-state.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 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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Of course, football fans must wait 18 weeks to see what's legitimate or not, but fantasy football expert Matthew Berry is sounding the alarm on one team and buying into the hype of another.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The bundle will be available soon on October 2, 2025, undoubtedly engineered to start the hype train for an imminent Super Mario Galaxy movie, which is due in 2026.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Gobbledygook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbledygook. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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