as in repetition
the use of too many words to express an idea
the article suffers from the logorrhea that infects so much academic writing
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Recent Examples of logorrhea
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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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
The sole exception to this scattershot logorrhea is Jia, a graceful young orphan with a special connection to Kong.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
The latest case is Twitter’s attempt Tuesday for the first time to fact-check Mr. Trump’s tweet logorrhea.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 May 2020
Their presence dramatized his absence, their logorrhea his silence.
—Gary Indiana, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
But her tinny outrage and Tyler’s own dogmatic logorrhea begin to feel like exhibits in a playfully prickly riff on the inauthentic, the massaged and the cagily appropriated when telling stories.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
Audra is armed with a pronounced case of logorrhea, an untamed curiosity, an ability to befriend almost anyone.
—The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
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
The sole exception to this scattershot logorrhea is Jia, a graceful young orphan with a special connection to Kong.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
The latest case is Twitter’s attempt Tuesday for the first time to fact-check Mr. Trump’s tweet logorrhea.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 27 May 2020
Their presence dramatized his absence, their logorrhea his silence.
—Gary Indiana, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
But her tinny outrage and Tyler’s own dogmatic logorrhea begin to feel like exhibits in a playfully prickly riff on the inauthentic, the massaged and the cagily appropriated when telling stories.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
Audra is armed with a pronounced case of logorrhea, an untamed curiosity, an ability to befriend almost anyone.
—The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for logorrhea
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In Malone’s hands, those associations change under the pressure of repetition, particularly in the stark, piercing sound-world of the organ.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Progressive overload means gradually increasing your routine's weight, frequency, or number of repetitions to challenge your muscles.Alyssa Hui-Anderson, Verywell Health, 25 Nov. 2024
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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
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But many French are deeply sick of hearing his volcanic verbosity.Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
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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
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Reached by the Union-Tribune Wednesday morning, Lindsey differed with McGillis’ wordage.Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
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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.Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
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By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
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What is Sora? Sora represents a significant leap in generative AI capabilities, functioning as a diffusion model to transform text prompts into videos of up to one minute.Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Redfield also cites the diffusion of media as another factor for national political themes being used in local contests.Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Logorrhea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/logorrhea. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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