as in repetition
the use of too many words to express an idea
somewhere, lost within all that wordage, is a modestly worthwhile idea
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Recent Examples of wordage
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.
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Amritpal Kaur Sandhu-Longoria,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2023
Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.
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Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Mar. 2023
The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought.
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Carol Muske-Dukes,
Washington Post,
1 Mar. 2023
The isle’s tourism website beckons travelers with picturesque wordage that can make one understand why Knowles misses his homeland.
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Gary Stoller,
Forbes,
3 Nov. 2021
Messages varied in terms of wordage, but most signs offered support with unique personal twists.
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Briar Napier,
The Arizona Republic,
11 July 2020
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
The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought.
—
Carol Muske-Dukes,
Washington Post,
1 Mar. 2023
The isle’s tourism website beckons travelers with picturesque wordage that can make one understand why Knowles misses his homeland.
—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes,
3 Nov. 2021
Messages varied in terms of wordage, but most signs offered support with unique personal twists.
—
Briar Napier,
The Arizona Republic,
11 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordage
Noun
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Complete 10–15 repetitions per leg.
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Despite decades of repetition, eating more carrots will not give you night vision.
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Clarity In the AI era, verbosity is free and clarity is expensive.
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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.
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The repetitiveness of the plot is not helped by the many montages writer-director Yandy Laurens uses as shortcuts, instead of writing scenes that show how the central relationship is developing.
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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.
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.
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The second is diffusion, where AI moves beyond the companies building it and spreads across every sector of the economy.
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To accelerate this diffusion, collaboration between government, business, civil society, and academia will be vital to share risks, smooth the path to market, and ensure that technological breakthroughs have a positive impact on societies.
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Beneath the dry legal verbiage, the timeline described in the 28-page complaint reads almost like the libretto of a five-act opera.
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The opposing locker room remains the same size, but with World Cup verbiage on the wall.
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Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.
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But in terms of its actual content, the statement was pretty thin gruel, bristling with public relations-style circumlocution and vagueness.
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Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.
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“Wordage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordage. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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