wordage

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Recent Examples of wordage On their website, the three yellow stripes are prominently featured on the website under the Black Lives Matter wordage, and used on their social media accounts. Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023 Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage. Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023 The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought. Carol Muske-Dukes, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023 The isle’s tourism website beckons travelers with picturesque wordage that can make one understand why Knowles misses his homeland. Gary Stoller, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021 Messages varied in terms of wordage, but most signs offered support with unique personal twists. Briar Napier, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordage
Noun
  • Take a one- or two-minute break between repetitions, repeating one or two times.
    Dana Santas, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
  • While some people initially took Trump’s comments about Canada becoming the 51st state as a joke, his constant repetition means Canadians are no longer laughing, Kahlon said.
    Josh Fellman, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Still, the challenge lies in managing the explosive verbosity that modern tools enable effortlessly.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Crisp articulation of ideas trumps verbosity, fostering a culture that treasures originality and respect for the reader’s time.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
Noun
  • Three criteria – depth, diffusion, and duration – need to be met individually to some degree in order to formally identify a recession, according to the NBER.
    Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The data are displayed in an image that is color coded to draw attention to areas of impaired diffusion.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Currently, there isn’t verbiage in place specific to owners who allow their dogs to roam free and charge at pedestrians.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The next step for Craig is learning the Celtics’ verbiage and the nuances of head coach Joe Mazzulla’s scheme.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.
    Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020

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“Wordage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordage. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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