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noun

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Recent Examples of verbose
Adjective
Truss is far less colorful, less verbose than her former backslapping boss — perhaps in a good way. William Booth, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2022 Laurie Woolery, who has helmed the premieres of several new plays at another New Haven theater, the Yale Rep, in New Haven, has a knack for packing action and needed distraction into scenes that might otherwise be tiringly verbose. Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2022
Noun
Anyway, political verbosity, as measured by State of the Union addresses, has risen during the twenty-first century. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025 When that’s chucked in a blender with his own penchant for spiky-savvy verbosity, the results fizz and pop. Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for verbose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbose
Adjective
  • Refine your key points to be clear and concise—no rambling monologues.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Emily soon bonds with the talkative rebel, and their connection eventually blossoms into a full-on romance.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 8 June 2025
  • They are not injured, just very loud and talkative.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Words, including those of artists themselves—as prolix in their way as critics, curators, and historians—can serve vision but can also deflect from it.
    Barry Schwabsky, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In 1949, a young American artist named Ray Johnson left Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C., moved to New York City and began to explore his prolix talents, both visual and verbal.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 30 May 2024
Noun
  • Generally speaking, contract manufacturers thrive on predictability and repetition; their systems are typically built around lean principles optimized for HVLM.
    Scott Graybeal, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • For global and local players alike, the message is clear: competing in China now means playing by a different rulebook — one that values connection over conversion, responsiveness over repetition, and trust over transaction.
    Li Jun, Footwear News, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Getting this into English would be clunky and far too wordy to fit into Quino’s word bubbles.
    Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
  • In the clip, Harris gave a wordy answer when asked about Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Just as the limitless space of web text tempts writers to indulge their logorrhea, the blinking, ever-transmuting, cartoonish interface of web browsers prevents would-be readers from paying attention to anything for longer than about 7 seconds.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
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
  • This is a classic example of diffusion of responsibility, where leaders can wriggle out of being held accountable by pointing the finger elsewhere.
    Melissa A. Wheeler, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • His unorthodox policy views had a magnifying effect on major global trends that had been well underway before Trump was elected, including the global diffusion of power, rapid and disruptive technological change, and political polarization and policy volatility.
    REBECCA LISSNER, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025

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“Verbose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbose. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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