variants also gobbledegook
as in gibberish
language marked by abstractions, jargon, euphemisms, and circumlocutions cut through the gobbledygook and just tell me what the final cost of the car would be

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Recent Examples of gobbledygook The six-episode limited series feels like a long movie broken into arbitrary episodes, its ending is mired by digital gobbledygook, and Marvel still doesn’t know how magic makes sense in a universe ruled by advanced technology and literal gods. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 June 2025 As always, Yellowjackets is full of mind-bending detours, supernatural gobbledygook, and foliage-laden costumes. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2025 Roberts’s majority opinion is pure gobbledygook The Bruen decision placed an enormously high burden on any government lawyer trying to convince a court that any gun law is constitutional. Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 June 2024 Others claimed the leaks were just artificial intelligence gobbledygook. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gobbledygook
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Noun
  • Vril and Agartha have thrived in part because of the way the editors mix brainrot and bigotry, disguising their ideological assaults in the fried fog of GifTok rap gibberish.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The strategy always involves the same ingredients: The message, called the plaintext, gets distorted (the encryption) so that anybody who intercepts it sees only garbled gibberish (the ciphertext).
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So there are all those questions and rigmarole.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
  • No rigamarole or bureaucracy to navigate.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The anti-American side focuses exclusively on the tragedies, usually makes slavery the chief argument for the prosecution, and dismisses the triumphs as hypocritical rhetoric.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Karbler hopes the rhetoric begins to diminish.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Driving the news: The statement was published only in English on the Facebook page of the Israeli Prime Minister's Office — potentially another case of double-talk by Netanyahu.
    Barak Ravid, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The GOP Senate candidate in Arizona, whose brand is a combative, never-back-down MAGA politics, has adopted a position on the issue that is nearly indistinguishable from that of double-talking Democrats.
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • By the next morning, the hype had spilled into the markets.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Sure, the product trades on hype, is highly volatile and has limited real-world applications.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Gobbledygook.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gobbledygook. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.

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