technobabble

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Recent Examples of technobabble With its iconic captains, philosophical dilemmas and unforgettable alien encounters, the Trek universe is rich with lore, logic, and a whole lot of technobabble. — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2025 Some individuals’ self-destructive dependence on AI to make sense of the world through religious prophecy, sci-fi technobabble, conspiracy theories, or all of the above has led to family rifts, divorces, and gradual alienation from society itself. — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025 Tom’s latest vehicle for death-defying stunts and — at this point — incoherent technobabble pits him against the AI from Dead Reckoning again. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 23 May 2025 Sure, the ending is solved by a convenient bit of technobabble, but even that could be seen as spoofing Trek. — Christian Holub, EW.com, 18 Apr. 2025 Simplification is about presenting information in a manner that best resonates with an audience and putting aside technobabble that may be confusing. — Steve Durbin, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for technobabble
Noun
  • The overly earnest character speaks in a hilariously cringey Gen Z self-help psychobabble that continuously grates on Enrique’s nerves.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
  • Sometimes, such content might be portrayed as being valid psychological science versus non-sensical psychobabble.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • California’s 176-page voter guide is dense with ballot measure legalese, policy debates and obscure candidates for statewide office.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Commercial cases are more complex, typically involving hundreds of pages of appraisals and legalese from the appellant.
    — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
Noun
  • This dumbed-down Goebbels gobbledygook revived talking points that Habermas had tried to quash during the Historikerstreit.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • But at least some of it was gobbledygook.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Dozens of countries’ names were misspelled or written in pure gibberish.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Dozens of other countries' names were misspelled or written in pure gibberish.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026

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“Technobabble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technobabble. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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