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
It mimics my chatty style of writing, but it's also a bit repetitive, and very verbose.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
On Thursday, the world witnessed a new, verbose chapter in those efforts: Mr. Putin’s two-hour interview, taped in a gilded hall at the Kremlin, with one of America’s most prominent and most divisive conservative commentators.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
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
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