as in mute
unable to speak
the sudden rumblings of an earthquake rendered people inarticulate with fear
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Face-to-face with horrendous history, the fictional journalist and the film itself become somewhat understandably inarticulate and fumbling.
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Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
Too annoying and inarticulate.
—Judy Gold, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
After all, every generation of music fans finds a like-minded peer group whose youthful, fleeting, inarticulate passion for one particular band provides a soft, stoned landing place in a hard world.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 13 July 2022
To see Amazon come out in support of Black Lives Matter, the same Amazon that orchestrated a campaign around people working in its processing centers and against a black organizer, calling him inarticulate.
—Sidney Fussell, Wired, 19 June 2020
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Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
Too annoying and inarticulate.
—Judy Gold, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
After all, every generation of music fans finds a like-minded peer group whose youthful, fleeting, inarticulate passion for one particular band provides a soft, stoned landing place in a hard world.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 13 July 2022
To see Amazon come out in support of Black Lives Matter, the same Amazon that orchestrated a campaign around people working in its processing centers and against a black organizer, calling him inarticulate.
—Sidney Fussell, Wired, 19 June 2020
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“Inarticulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inarticulate. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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