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
The differences, of course, are my unimpeachable taste and my extreme verbosity, neither of which I make any apology for.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2024
It will also let developers decide their AI's style of tone and verbosity.
From Reuters • Mar. 15, 2023
Or perhaps it's a matter of the principal characters having less dialogue, although the verbosity of Bob Odenkirk's con man has ramped up in recent episodes as his various personalities messily squish together.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2022
Dickens needs the dollars, and he therefore spins out his satires to a length of distance to be traversed only by seven-league boots, and in verbosity is equalled only by Thackeray.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan
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