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unintelligible or meaningless talk
- the soothsayer's predictions were nothing but mumbo jumbo
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“Mumbo jumbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mumbo%20jumbo. Accessed 26 Jun. 2022.
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The first known use of mumbo jumbo was in 1738
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