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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
The six-episode limited series feels like a long movie broken into arbitrary episodes, its ending is mired by digital gobbledygook, and Marvel still doesn’t know how magic makes sense in a universe ruled by advanced technology and literal gods.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 June 2025
As always, Yellowjackets is full of mind-bending detours, supernatural gobbledygook, and foliage-laden costumes.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
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
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 June 2025
As always, Yellowjackets is full of mind-bending detours, supernatural gobbledygook, and foliage-laden costumes.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gobbledygook
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In Anthropic’s experiments, as few as 250 malicious documents were enough to induce AI models to output gibberish.—
Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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Vril and Agartha have thrived in part because of the way the editors mix brainrot and bigotry, disguising their ideological assaults in the fried fog of GifTok rap gibberish.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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Now, there’s a bit of rigmarole in getting that price, which includes (according to Google Translate) nabbing a time-specific coupon worth $286 and trading in your old phone.—
Janhoi McGregor,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Everyone was perfectly lovely and perfectly tepid about going through the whole rigamarole again.—
Lauren Bans,
Vulture,
5 Jan. 2026
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As Sweden’s canon debate attests, such rhetoric remains part of the global right-wing playbook.—
Colton Valentine,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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But his other harsh rhetoric in relation to the Arctic territory and NATO allies is still reverberating across the alliance.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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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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From exclusive six-seat counters to beloved West End izakayas, here is our definitive guide to the Japanese restaurants in London that are truly worth the hype.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2026
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Amid the hype, accolades, long lines and social media frenzy, the Central Texas-style barbecue delivers.—
Henri Hollis,
AJC.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Gobbledygook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbledygook. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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