circuitousness

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Noun
  • Aimed at improving circularity and extending the life cycle of its products, M&S partnered with Redskinned—a company that repairs, resells and recycles used garments—to operate the eBay storefront.
    Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Treating natural systems as core sporting assets makes circularity a business imperative.
    Sebastian Buckup, Time, 7 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Duco negates the need for any human intervention by leveraging a hanging robotic system that automatically sketches multi-layered circuity to enable novel large-scale interfaces.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Mazzone hopes that studying the neural circuity for coughing will eventually lead to new therapies.
    Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
Noun
  • This was only the start of the incomprehensibility of this segment.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Technological diffusion has historically followed an S-curve, where early adoption is slow, accelerates as costs fall, and eventually plateaus as saturation sets in and marginal returns diminish.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For those concerned about sensitivity, passive scent methods such as reed diffusers, including options from B’s Knees, Nest or Hotel Collection, and cold-air diffusion systems like those from Aroma360 offer lighter ways to fragrance a space.
    Allison Hatfield, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • As a result, the impenetrability of EU bureaucracies will continue to limit the United States’ ability to restructure transatlantic economic relations.
    JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To be sure, prices could reverse again in the coming days given all the uncertainties about the war.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Mar. 2026
  • For fashion, the Fall/Winter 2026 season arrived at a moment of heightened uncertainty, as wholesale continues its rocky reset and geopolitical uncertainty remains high.
    Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.
    Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • The previous record-holder was President Clinton, famously known for his Southern-twang verbosity.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This working prompt injection came only after much trial and error, explaining the verbosity and the detail in it.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Circuitousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circuitousness. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.

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