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to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm
  • pundits who should have known better effused endlessly about this idealistic but naive senator

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“Effuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effuse. Accessed 5 Aug. 2020.

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