: the act or manner of expressing in words : phraseology
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Commenters on the video found her wording flub (and confidence) adorable.
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Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
The wording of the sentence has led to diverging interpretations.
—Ethan Bronner / Bloomberg, TIME, 27 May 2024
The wording of the text exactly matched a WhatsApp message that was later sent on Knezevich Henao’s phone.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
The copilot’s answers could also be inconsistent—with the same query yielding different results at different times—or extremely sensitive to seemingly inconsequential changes in the wording of a prompt.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2014
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Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
The wording of the sentence has led to diverging interpretations.
—Ethan Bronner / Bloomberg, TIME, 27 May 2024
The wording of the text exactly matched a WhatsApp message that was later sent on Knezevich Henao’s phone.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 7 May 2024
The copilot’s answers could also be inconsistent—with the same query yielding different results at different times—or extremely sensitive to seemingly inconsequential changes in the wording of a prompt.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2014
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“Wording.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wording. Accessed 15 Jun. 2024.
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wording
noun
word·ing
ˈwərd-iŋ 
: the way in which something is put into words
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