as in repetition
the use of too many words to express an idea
somewhere, lost within all that wordage, is a modestly worthwhile idea
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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.
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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
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
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His first senior goals may not have been as eye-catching, but they were similarly steeped in repetition.—
Art de Roché,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
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Start with lighter weights and higher repetitions to practice form and build muscular endurance.—
Kelly Burch Published,
Verywell Health,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Anyway, political verbosity, as measured by State of the Union addresses, has risen during the twenty-first century.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2024
Noun
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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
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
Noun
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There is a 120-day comment period that ends on May 15 on the AI diffusion rules, unless Trump reverses or revises the rule before then.—
Trevor Laurence Jockims,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2025
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But the company's literature doesn't mention using diffusion models, which are part of a specific branch of machine learning.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The concepts and verbiage were completely different from what Kansas City had used only a few years before, Childress said.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC News,
6 Feb. 2025
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The fire department asked for additional information from BP and were told that a notice would be put out as soon as the legal team reviewed the notification’s verbiage.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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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 22 Feb. 2025.
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