circuitousness

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Noun
  • While the perfect textile-to-textile recycling solution remains just out of reach, the panelists agreed that the work being done now will lead to a future of greater circularity for post-consumer textiles.
    Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 6 May 2026
  • One area that leading mills hope will remain resilient is the denim industry’s commitment to circularity and recycled cotton.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 Mar. 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, 1 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Non-state actors and drone warfare The diffusion of UAV technology has enabled non-state actors to participate in air warfare in unprecedented ways.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
  • In disaster response, there is no room for diffusion of responsibility.
    Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 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
  • The uncertainties that led to disquiet over nuclear power across the country in the 1970s and 1980s have not gone away but have changed as technology has evolved.
    Krisztian Elcsics, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
  • Senate leadership was ousted just hours before Duterte’s impeachment trial moves to that chamber, creating political uncertainty and complications for the proceedings.
    Jim Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.
    Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • Director Scott Ellis understands all this, and thus the admirably specific physical business and slurred verbosity in his gently outré revival really makes for quite the amusing diversion.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Director Scott Ellis understands all this and thus the admirably specific physical business and slurred verbosity in his gently outré revival really makes for quite the amusing diversion.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Circuitousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circuitousness. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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