GARBLING Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

garbling

verb

present participle of garble

as in distorting

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of the candidate complained that his views had been deliberately garbled by his opponent

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as in filtering

to remove usually visible impurities from garbled spices are less likely to contaminate a recipe

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The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026
But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of distorting

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Bangkok's preservationists realized that the river could once again become the soul of the city, and creative hoteliers and restaurateurs began filtering back.

— Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Even more baffling is that American Girl already includes age categories as a method for filtering books on its website.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

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Settlement talks collapsed in late August after Bonta accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting their discussions.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
At that public meeting, several parents said Adams should have been fired for misleading them and misrepresenting the condition of the Earl Warren ATP facilities.

— Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of misrepresenting

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Before meeting with a patient advocate, identify your main objectives – for example, preparing for a transition home, clarifying a treatment plan or understanding medication changes.

— Jennifer Schlinger, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026
In November 2025, South Korea proposed talks on clarifying the borderline, but North Korea didn’t respond.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

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The Falcon-Emirati model and related tools for speech recognition and extracting Arabic text from images and documents are relatively compact.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Over the past quarter century, foreign direct investment across sub-Saharan Africa has remained relatively flat—around two to three percent as a share of GDP—and most of it has gone to extracting oil, diamonds, and gold and other minerals.

— Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

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