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stutters

verb

present tense third-person singular of stutter

as in stammers

to speak with many involuntary pauses and repetitions I used to stutter when I was a child. She stutters when she gets excited.

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Recent Examples of stutters What worked fine at home suddenly stutters and stalls on the road. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 Bill stutters an affirmative response that captures every man who has held out irrational hope that a woman will return to him. — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2026 Surprising melodic choices ride a chameleonic song structure that stutters and shrieks, bounces and raves with a fresh mix of Big Beat, UKG, breakbeats, and electro-pop sounds. — Kat Bein, SPIN, 21 May 2026 My heart and probably yours stutters. — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026 It's got 8GB RAM, which ensures multitasking never stutters, and its 13-inch Liquid Retina display is just exquisite to look at. — PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025

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The fountain stammers and falls, motion-activated, playing to the crowd.

— Karl Kirchwey, The New York Review of Books, 13 Nov. 2025
Valentina tells Carol, who then stammers over her own words.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025

Definition of stammers

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That video shows three boys scrubbing the floor and walls of a room in the school with rags as Morrison shouts commands and admonishments.

— Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 24 July 2026
In the background, an adult voice shouts at the bear, helping to scare the animal off.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

Definition of shouts

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Both look over at me and then Lumet mumbles something and the conversation abruptly ends.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, everyone is still running around like the Keystone Kops chasing Billie, passing an old lady in a bed eating Jell-O who mumbles something in Diné.

— Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of mumbles

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But for ordinary Americans, for those of us without fame, wealth, or connections, the machinery of justice often sputters.

— Letters to the Editor, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
This will be a close game while the Eagles offense sputters against the Seahawks defense, and the offense hears a few boos in the second half.

— Zach Berman, New York Times, 15 May 2026

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