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talking a lot in an energetic and rapid way
a voluble host Jen was relaxed and voluble, eagerly retelling her vacation adventures.
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Recent Examples of voluble
Hostility to such politics has been voluble and loud.
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Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
The usually voluble Booker wasn’t eager to dissect his 2020 race.
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Russell Berman,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2026
Unlike the voluble Freedman, CAA was silent Thursday when Deadline reached out for comment on the looming mass action.
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
5 Mar. 2026
Great Again movement is looking to sack the musical performance, given their side's voluble objections to Bad Bunny.
—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Nikhil Krishnan,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
The usually voluble Booker wasn’t eager to dissect his 2020 race.
—
Russell Berman,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2026
Unlike the voluble Freedman, CAA was silent Thursday when Deadline reached out for comment on the looming mass action.
—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
5 Mar. 2026
Great Again movement is looking to sack the musical performance, given their side's voluble objections to Bad Bunny.
—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for voluble
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The great speculators became talkative and communicative or dull, sullen, silent, and peevish.
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Doing this kind of work with other talkative animals, such as dolphins, would be much more difficult.
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The film can’t even quite articulate why Krypto is so important to Supergirl.
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Park, hitherto a fount of articulate thoughts, is suddenly coy.
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After six years of teleworking, California’s state employees have become fluent in software such as Google Docs and Microsoft Teams to work with their colleagues and get their jobs done.
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Advertisement Having conversations in fluent French, acquired by dint of immense hard work over many years, was an unmatchably rewarding experience.
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But the highest-value layer will be people who combine financial fluency with the kind of strategic, communicative intelligence that helps the whole organization make better decisions.
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The great speculators became talkative and communicative or dull, sullen, silent, and peevish.
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Since then, Emilie Kiser has been vocal on social media about water safety for children, urging parents to install pool fences and door alarms with working batteries, and ensuring children have swimming sessions.
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The Voice Season 29 winner Alexia Jayy will also have a special vocal performance.
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The deployment introduced an agent layer that could access the underlying systems, prepare inputs for the appropriate optimization approach, interpret outputs in plain language and surface recommendations through conversational and web interfaces.
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Some startups — like HereAfter AI, Storyfile, and Eternos — offer services like video avatars and conversational AI trained on a deceased person’s data.
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“Voluble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/voluble. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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