verbosity
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Bronner inherited his verbosity and gumption from his grandfather, Emanuel Bronner, who originally crammed all-caps, feel-good credos onto the labels of his soap bottles in the 1940s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Its sportscasters are more judicious with their verbosity this time around too.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024
Section 53.49 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is a classic of lawyerly syntax and needless verbosity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2023
It will also let developers decide their AI's style of tone and verbosity.
From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023
De Quincey's passages of splendid rhetoric are too often succeeded by dead levels of verbosity and laboured puerilities which make annoyance alternate with enthusiasm.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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Wonder
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