verbose

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In another, a patient reporting a headache was given a verbose response that said the patient could have anything from something minor to a brain tumor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Skarsgård says he worried about how it would be incorporated during shooting, particularly because Murderbot is so expressionless and not very verbose in many of the actual scenes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025

He is very verbose and speaks in a certain way.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2024

He served as Senator Ted Cruz’s chief of staff and in many ways mirrors his former boss’s pugnacious and verbose style.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

Neither of us was what anyone would call verbose, and I didn’t know what there was to say regardless.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer