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Adjective
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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 -
His answer is this book: a laudably sincere, exasperatingly prolix and occasionally affecting rumination on the state of Egypt—its society, culture, history and politics—pegged to the maddening bureaucracy of the archive.—
Kapil Komireddi,
WSJ,
12 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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The steering has a natural, connected feel that's not artificially weighted, but is genuinely communicative.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Feb. 2026
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This is an unusual position for an exponent of the public sphere and communicative rationality to take.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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This is a wordier way of explaining the obvious downstream effects of paying for better players.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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With Payton and Nix, in particular, part of the rationale was to get some of Payton’s most wordy calls on the band so the coach could give short-hand to Nix, creating a couple of extra seconds for the quarterback to spit out a call that might be15 or 20 words long.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But Dreher has been giving voice to the yearnings and frustrations of religious conservatives for many years—as a magazine blogger with more than 1 million pageviews a month, an author of best-selling books, and a deliriously verbose writer on Substack.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Instead, Reeves became Estragon, the more simplistic and long-suffering of the duo, while Winter tackled Vladimir, the more commanding and verbose character.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In today’s relatively cold and diffuse universe, quarks have settled down to sedate lives within their protonic and neutronic homes.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
6 Feb. 2026
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This year’s Oscar-villain conversation, then, is far more diffuse than ever.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The journey there was circuitous, basically random.—
Alexandra Romanoff,
Vogue,
10 Feb. 2026
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Her course to bobsled success has been arduous and circuitous, including moments of firsts for a woman – one of the firsts to pilot a mixed-gender team in four-man, and the first to drive an all-female team against men in a World Cup – and fights for a woman.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Dunleavy was more talkative about the Warriors’ flexibility in both the present and offseason, when Porzingis’ contract expires and the Warriors still possess all of their draft picks.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
8 Feb. 2026
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Loud, funny and talkative, The Big Bopper merged radio and rock stardom and became a larger-than-life entity with a true theatrical presence.—
Chris Barilla,
PEOPLE,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Prolific and intellectually restless, Greenberg was in many ways the loquacious American version of the late Tom Stoppard, and in turn a significant influence on such Chicago writers as Tracy Letts.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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Yang is loquacious, tall, affable, and very smart.—
Xochitl Gonzalez,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Periphrastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/periphrastic. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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