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prolix

[proh-liks, proh-liks] / proʊˈlɪks, ˈproʊ lɪks /




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The world premiere, “Have We Met?!,” choreographed by Juliano Nunes, is a 33-minute, two-part, prolix affair for two featured couples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025

A certain type of actor thrives in these prolix circumstances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Re-creating Odysseus’s trip from Troy to Ithaca, they touch on everything from Mick Jagger to mortality, with the witty banter of a prolix Hope and Crosby and the delicacy of a dragonfly’s wing.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2020

But the notoriously prolix president - whose 2012 speech for Barack Obama ran nearly 50 minutes - was kept to five minutes during the tight, all-online convention.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2020

Upon which many great things occurred, which I say nothing about, in order not to be more prolix.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa


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