as in nonsense
unintelligible or meaningless talk
when he gets angry, he talks in a sort of agitated jabberwocky that is really quite comical
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But when real users interact with it, the system collapses, generating nonsense or failing to handle inputs that deviate from the demo script.—
Albert Lie,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025 -
Slapping down Putin should mean something, but that pronouncement, like everything Trump utters, is undercut by him spouting nonsense, including about a third term, which his press secretary laughed off yesterday.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2025
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
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The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.—
Lili Loofbourow,
Washington Post,
20 Mar. 2024
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Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.—
Jennifer Rubin,
Washington Post,
16 July 2024
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Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
5 June 2023
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Related Articles Over the weekend, there was a lot of online chatter about Elliott either closing his business or selling it to Authentic Brands Group.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
8 Apr. 2025
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The last week has been a lot of chatter on the matter.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
7 Apr. 2025
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But at the heart of it is an army of armchair scientists tapping into the unknown, shattering relaxation boundaries and spewing gibberish all in the hopes that someone out there will tingle.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2025
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While his wife, Mark’s sister Devon, seems to regard her husband’s new-age gibberish with indifference or annoyance, there are people in Ricken’s orbit who can match his freak.—
Samantha Allen,
Them,
25 Feb. 2025
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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
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Trying to decode that spirit's mystical mumbo jumbo into actionable intelligence is a key part of your effort against the Dreamscourge.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
13 Feb. 2025
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The center of the flower comes out for faster water flow, or remove it altogether if your cat would rather drink from a lower, springlike burble.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
31 Mar. 2025
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There are a handful of moments where synthesized washes burble and soar, the net effect of arena lights splashing onto a crowd of thousands.—
Mosi Reeves,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Jabberwocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jabberwocky. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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