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Word: gibberish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...while an odd, indiscernible voice warbles in the background and the guitar strums become progressively more ravaging. “Imaginary Friends” insists on an innocent nostalgia with its lilting yet pressing “oh’s,” attempting to pass off its gibberish as distinguishable lyrics. But the auditory pretend game is too rushed for comprehension, obscuring its sentimental moans with mismatched beats and forlorn growls. In “Venom,” drumbeats come in faltering steps and force unintended halts in the rhythm, ultimately transitioning the song into a fragmented...

Author: By Qichen Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Little Girls | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Here is what goes through your mind during 90 minutes of Christian improv: "No, no, can't say that, nope, maybe if ... no." In response to a game in which we had to communicate a murder scenario to one another in gibberish, our audience shouted its increasingly bland ideas with fervor: "Turtle!" "Balloon!" "IHOP!" "Bowling!" When one sinner yelled "Uranus!" our troupe member repeated it as "Urahnus." We even had to change the classic "guy walks into a bar, and the bartender says" scenario into "guy walks into a restaurant, and the manager says." This was one tight ahnus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christian Improv: What's Funny at Warren's Church | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Large corporations have never had a lot of credibility when investors have attempted to interpret their predictions. The comments from Intel's CEO were gibberish. His business is dead, but for some reason he implies that the activity in his customer base is improving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intel and the PC World: The Investor Feels Betrayed | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...change comes from the bottom up" to his admonitions about "an era of profound irresponsibility," Obama called for change in Americans. And not just in bankers or insurers - in all of us. His Zen koan, "We are the change we've been waiting for," may sound like New Age gibberish, but it's at the core of his agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...racial slur at random. The first baby to do so popped its head through a hole in the board, babbling incomprehensibly and occasionally saying the word “nigger” very clearly. She was joined by a second baby who took an angry tone with his gibberish and exclamations of “nigger.”Two screaming babies followed and eventually two more joined them. Their disagreement was silenced when one baby snorted a great throaty wad and spit it right into another baby’s face. The babies all spat at each other...

Author: By William P. Hennrikus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Corbu' Explores Race Artfully | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

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