digressiveness

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Noun
  • At fashion’s flagship sustainability conference, the industry doubled down on circularity, recasting sustainability as a business problem and pushing workers to the margins of the conversation.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • That diffusion makes the costs easy to underestimate.
    Tammy Hawes, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • 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
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
Noun
  • 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
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“Digressiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressiveness. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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