wordy
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Users — especially those who made the switch to Claude — have recently slammed the app for being unnecessarily wordy and preachy in tone.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026
A lay reader may find this wordy description difficult to grasp.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
The initials RB were short for Racing Bulls, and were used because the company felt that the full team name including its title sponsor, a credit card company, was too wordy.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2024
They’re notably mean-spirited and, often, comically wordy, in the way of those T-shirts featuring scrolls of indignant text down someone’s back, often printed in Impact, the meme font.
From Slate • Oct. 26, 2024
The music from the settlement stays the same, messy and wordy and bending around itself like a monkey.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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Language and Grammar - High School
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -y
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