Example Sentences

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At issue was Likely’s post-reception action, and whether or not he had completed the proper sequence of steps and moves to satisfy that all-purpose bit of NFL gobbledygook:

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

Until the “useless” headline sparked outrage, nobody at MSN seemed to realize that their news page was larded with gobbledygook.

From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023

Their conversations are subtitled while those of their white captors, mainly abusing nuns, sound like alien gobbledygook.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2023

It’s complete gobbledygook, unless you read it with Kissinger’s dissertation in mind.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2022

Academics in the softer fields dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker