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Recent Examples of verbiage The objectionable verbiage is sorted into categories, with explanations and descriptions. James Folta, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025 That verbiage sounds more like a lawyer or politician than one of the world’s leading shipyards. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025 Having that same voice and verbiage is so critical. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025 His verbiage leaves the door open for skepticism, however. Andrew Hughes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for verbiage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbiage
Noun
  • The book talked about repetition without repetition.
    Joe Boylan, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Hold for a second and then return to the starting position, completing multiple repetitions (reps).
    Jakob Roze, Health, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yet, historians have noted that his rhetoric and policies play into the individualist and patriotic characteristics associated with the beloved Western cowboy.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Republican rhetoric didn’t appear to give protesters pause in the Bay Area on Saturday, and local Republicans appeared to stay on the sidelines.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The series has hit the Netflix Top 10 in all 93 countries that the company measures; Season 4 was the first-ever English-language series to cross 1 billion hours streamed on the platform, and continues to be the streamer’s third-most-popular English-language TV title.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Befitting of JJJJound’s minimalist, premium design language, each pair is light on flair, letting the Speedcat’s iconic silhouette and high-quality materials do the heavy lifting here.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
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
Noun
  • The first three were post-dictions of inflation; the latter four were predictions that had not yet been observed when they were made.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Raised in the Highbridge section of the Bronx not far from where DJ Kool Herc threw the 1973 party revered as rap music’s spiritual baby shower, Cardi bookends those songs with experiments in accentuating and contrasting her distinctly New York diction.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Similar wording is found on the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft listing under technical details.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But legal experts say the wording was murky, making judicial interpretation a moving target.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The truth is, there is rarely a Merritt Wever or an Adrien Brody in awards speeches—extreme cases of brevity or verbosity that stun both those in the room and at home.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The barrage of media coverage highlights their weight-loss functions, but formulations of these drugs were originally developed to help people with diabetes control their blood sugar.
    Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Heimplanet adds a 5,000-mm silicone-polyurethane (sil/PU5,000mm) into the formulation of its polyester wall fabric to enhance tear resistance.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Verbiage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbiage. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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