verbosity
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His Harvard-and-Yale pedigree and debate-me-bro verbosity make him come off more like a snob than a man of the people.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
Nuzzi describes the grief she feels over this betrayal, but from a distance, shrouded in verbosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Its sportscasters are more judicious with their verbosity this time around too.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2024
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 Sir Leslie Stephen
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