as in to stutter
to speak with many pauses and repetitions
He stammers when he's nervous.
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Recent Examples of stammer
Thiel stared ahead blankly and began stammering, as if his brain were buffering.
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 10 July 2025
History of hurricane names A tall, stammering meteorologist arrived at the 19th-century lecture hall with his papers falling around him.
—Tom Brown, Space.com, 29 June 2025
Sherman portrayed the youngest of three brothers, the shy, stammering logger Jeremy Bolt, on the 1968-70 Screen Gems/ABC show.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Over hard hip-hop beats and snarling guitar distortion, Gordon stammered about daily banalities, reframing modern life as a psychological war zone.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
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Christian Schneider, National Review, 10 July 2025
History of hurricane names A tall, stammering meteorologist arrived at the 19th-century lecture hall with his papers falling around him.
—Tom Brown, Space.com, 29 June 2025
Sherman portrayed the youngest of three brothers, the shy, stammering logger Jeremy Bolt, on the 1968-70 Screen Gems/ABC show.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2025
Over hard hip-hop beats and snarling guitar distortion, Gordon stammered about daily banalities, reframing modern life as a psychological war zone.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for stammer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stammer
stutter
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The attack ended what had been a stuttering process of bilateral US-Iranian talks designed to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program.—
Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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So was bassist Pino Palladino, late jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove, keyboardist James Poyser, and Questlove’s stuttering percussion, inspired by secret weapon, Hip-hop production game-changer J Dilla.—
Keith Murphy,
VIBE.com,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Stammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stammer. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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