word salad
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word salad (usually uncountable, plural word salads)
- (psychiatry) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
- Meaningless text generated by a computer.
- An intentionally nonsensical and voluminous statement.
- 2021, Jeremy Newberger, Twitter[1]:
- Chris Wallace asked @GovAbbott why he didn't complain about migrant abuse when Trump was President and he launched into word salad, with no real answer.
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a nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia
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- word salad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia