as in nonsense
unintelligible or meaningless talk
the soothsayer's predictions were nothing but mumbo jumbo
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Recent Examples of mumbo jumbo
But besides all the business mumbo jumbo, there is nothing like doing comedy for a live audience and getting that feedback and that energy.
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Frank Digiacomo,
Billboard,
10 July 2025
This is the familiar mumbo jumbo that Hollywood loves to attach to surfing, to highlight the metaphysical connection that surfers have to the waves, the ocean, and maybe even the cosmos.
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Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
4 Mar. 2025
Trying to decode that spirit's mystical mumbo jumbo into actionable intelligence is a key part of your effort against the Dreamscourge.
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Ars Technica,
13 Feb. 2025
Strong actors also can’t prop up a script built out of barely penetrable mumbo jumbo.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for mumbo jumbo
Frank Digiacomo,
Billboard,
10 July 2025
This is the familiar mumbo jumbo that Hollywood loves to attach to surfing, to highlight the metaphysical connection that surfers have to the waves, the ocean, and maybe even the cosmos.
—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
4 Mar. 2025
Trying to decode that spirit's mystical mumbo jumbo into actionable intelligence is a key part of your effort against the Dreamscourge.
—
Ars Technica,
13 Feb. 2025
Strong actors also can’t prop up a script built out of barely penetrable mumbo jumbo.
—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
See All Example Sentences for mumbo jumbo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mumbo jumbo
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Not only is that nonsense, but Israel took this into account.
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Get outta here with that nonsense.
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The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
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Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
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But the games must go on, and in the third installment, he’s forced to play even more torturous rounds that divide the players further, including a terrifying game of hide-and-seek and a deadly round of double Dutch.
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Girls playing double Dutch In this picture by Wayne F. Miller, young girls play double Dutch in the snow in 1940s Chicago.
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Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
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The bizarre reality of daily life in a Southeast Asian scam compound—the tactics, the tone, the mix of cruelty and upbeat corporate prattle—is revealed at an unprecedented level of resolution in a leak of documents to WIRED from a whistleblower inside one such sprawling fraud operation.
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In the last year or two, there was chatter and debate whether Messi would actually be selected to join the national team again.
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If circumstances had gone Spain’s way with more clinical finishing or a Cape Verde defender making a mistake, then the result would have been different and a lot of the chatter currently happening (including here) would likely not be happening.
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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.
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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.
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That shooting makes up for what is a fairly blah resume otherwise.
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“Mumbo jumbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mumbo%20jumbo. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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