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as in talkative
fond of talking or conversation
a garrulous boy who was in constant trouble for talking out of turn
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as in rambling
using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea
now that he's in his anecdotage, Grandpa likes to tell garrulous, shaggy-dog accounts of his youthful misadventures
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Recent Examples of garrulous
Schulman worked on, among other things, techniques for fine-tuning large language models with human feedback using what’s known as reinforcement learning, an approach that proved key to building a capable and garrulous chatbot like ChatGPT.
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Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
In the days after the protests came the death of former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin, an avuncular and garrulous (if sometimes clownish) leader.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2022
Or that the mayor (Ron Perlman, chewing the scenery as a garrulous Trump caricature) would make his dirty money so easy to find?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
Heather Jones & Scott Troxel Their sometimes garrulous titles suggest that Heather Jones’s paintings tell stories.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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Will Knight, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
In the days after the protests came the death of former CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin, an avuncular and garrulous (if sometimes clownish) leader.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2022
Or that the mayor (Ron Perlman, chewing the scenery as a garrulous Trump caricature) would make his dirty money so easy to find?
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 1 Aug. 2024
Heather Jones & Scott Troxel Their sometimes garrulous titles suggest that Heather Jones’s paintings tell stories.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for garrulous
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Introverts may become talkative, or extroverts quiet and withdrawn.Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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Energetic and talkative, Patel speaks of his peers on Devon with the comfort and humor of a longtime community member.Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2024
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His statement came a day after the release of the Netflix series, which takes viewers back to the morning after Christmas 28 years ago, when JonBenét’s mother called 911 to report finding a rambling ransom note and her daughter missing.Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
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There is more than 178 feet of beach and ocean frontage, which can be accessed via a rambling wooden staircase.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Cats use exaggerated movements to show emotions, rather than painting them on their faces.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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And then, Jamie suddenly returned in the episode’s final moments, proving that reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 12 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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“Garrulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garrulous. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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