technobabble

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Recent Examples of technobabble Simplification is about presenting information in a manner that best resonates with an audience and putting aside technobabble that may be confusing. Steve Durbin, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024 That’s because the plot is a lumpy stew of familiar elements, given minimal narrative clarity despite the reams of expository technobabble spouted by Matthew Macfadyen’s Mr. Paradox. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024 Twister built a template that its sequel largely follows: loud and fast-paced but anchored by a reliable ensemble spouting meteorological technobabble amid the chaos. David Sims, The Atlantic, 18 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for technobabble
Noun
  • This is the modernist quest reduced to Silicon Valley psychobabble.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The show is savvy enough to sense how easily human ache can fall prey to the manipulative language of certain practitioners, and how alluring psychobabble can be, in the right context.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2021
Noun
  • The nation needed somebody who could pull the strings, massage egos, calm Congress, walk through the land mines of fickle public opinion, issue legalese when needed, and hold forth in public messages of near biblical elevations when that was needed in its turn.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • This comedy/romance/drama follows the true story of Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts in an Oscar-winning performance), a struggling single mother who, despite knowing little about legalese, fronts a lawsuit that would become groundbreaking on the environmental front.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Details of new initiatives were bogged down by mind-numbing bureaucratese.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The most striking aspect of Putin’s failure to accept responsibility for the Kursk disaster was his retreat into bureaucratese.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
Noun
  • Apologies to the Lois Lane stans out there, but Adams is mostly on hand in these movies to deliver stern gobbledygook (something about isotopes?) and stare at Henry Cavill’s cheekbones.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
  • So, of course, their stony-eyed dedication to taking this inspirational gobbledygook seriously has gone viral.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Fried memes and hysterical gibberish suffocate the internet nowadays.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
  • This is compounded by the fact that at the center of the black hole lies a singularity, at which point all our laws of physics break down, making gibberish of even our most nuanced and profound achievements in physics.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Dec. 2024

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“Technobabble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/technobabble. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.

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