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Adjective
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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 -
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
Adjective
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Ornithologist Richard Prum also takes a communicative view of art, but one where art is meant to be evaluated for its beauty.—
Shawn Simpson,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
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Their steering is communicative, responsive and precise.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Payton has said, both with Nix and Russell Wilson before, that the main point of the band is to shorten some of the wordiest play calls.—
Parker Gabriel,
The Denver Post,
4 Mar. 2025
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A week after the Succession alum made a throwaway joke about a certain someone's wordy speeches, Adrien Brody broke the record for longest Oscars acceptance speech.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The lawmaker said that the usable speech only came after four or five prompts that generated unusable material, either too verbose or oddly phrased, an illustration of how important the input into the AI is to the result.—
Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 Jan. 2023
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The verbose coach was at somewhat of a loss for words, opting to forgo opening remarks in his postgame press conference and instead diving right into questions.—
Tom Green | tgreen@al.com,
al,
18 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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Cultural attitudes on each side toward consumer safety, environmental protection, and privacy run deep, and they will not be overcome with promises of diffuse economic benefits and future job growth.—
Thomas J. Bollyky,
Foreign Affairs,
10 July 2013
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In large companies with diffuse corporate hierarchies, that legal bar can be difficult to meet.—
Richard Vanderford,
WSJ,
30 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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Resilience is taking a much longer, more circuitous route to the moon; the Japanese lander isn't expected to reach lunar orbit until late May or early June.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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The water then was pumped throughout the city via a circuitous network of huge pipes, many of them buried under Greenmount Avenue and York Road.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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As Shrek sets out with his talkative sidekick Donkey, the adventure quickly evolves from a simple quest to a journey of self-discovery, unexpected relationships and a lot of hilarity along the way.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Put two confident and talkative teen-agers on the court against each other, and the mics will catch some quips, and that’s what the viewers got with Waters & Patriquin trading winners and barbs all afternoon.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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While Chastain offered little when asked how his conversation with Hocevar transpired, Blaney was more loquacious.—
Jordan Bianchi,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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Related Stories Movies Quiet Berlin Market Wraps With Few Big Deals But Some Optimism Movies 'Khartoum' Review: Experimental Doc Poignantly Captures the Crisis in Sudan Kontinental '25 The Bottom Line Thought-provoking and loquacious.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Periphrastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/periphrastic. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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