wordage

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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. 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
  • In fact, the seals landed in the same statistical range as nursery rhymes, where repetition and predictability help a message carry and be remembered.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Try these exercises and gradually progress them by adding more resistance, sets, and repetitions over time.
    Jakob Roze, Health, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But Sieh is the standout, emitting a complex blend of sardonic acceptance, cynical verbosity and submerged emotional longing.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Crisp articulation of ideas trumps verbosity, fostering a culture that treasures originality and respect for the reader’s time.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 24 Feb. 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
  • The diffusion index in the jobs report gauges the concentration of growth.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Essentially, the machine is going to generate new data sets from existing ones, sort of like how a diffusion model operates.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Bourne’s availability The verbiage is pretty much the same, but the 49ers have added a lot to their offense under Shanahan since wide receiver Kendrick Bourne in 2020.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • What Brown and Downing have done, following comments Vrabel made last March, is help pare down the verbiage in McDaniels’ system.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.
    Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • Their circumlocutions were as entrancing as their ability to find the most precisely ironic words for difficult-to-name realities.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
  • 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.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
Noun
  • Remaining on stage with gracious verbalism, Batiste first acknowledged the nominees.
    Allison Hazel, Essence, 9 June 2021

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“Wordage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordage. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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