as in diffuseness
the use of too many words to express an idea
he's a brilliant thinker, but his windiness tends to overwhelm his ideas
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Typically, Pilates exercises are performed in a sequence of three to five repetitions to build strength and improve flexibility.—
Sarah Jividen,
Verywell Health,
21 Jan. 2025 -
As Sabalenka found out in 2022, razing a service motion built up through a lifetime of repetitions is one of the most vulnerable things a tennis player can do.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
12 Jan. 2025
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Take this example: a Microsoft team is just now figuring out how to use a diffusion model to find new materials that can fit the bill for high-tech projects.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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One is the prospect that uncontrolled diffusion of advanced AI could empower the world’s most dangerous state and nonstate actors, and potentially rogue autonomous AI systems themselves, to develop catastrophic cyber- and bioweapons or unleash other existential national security threats.—
Colin H. Kahl,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Jan. 2025
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Anyway, political verbosity, as measured by State of the Union addresses, has risen during the twenty-first century.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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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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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.—
Barton Swaim,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2022
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Nor has Musk kept his Twitter logorrhea in check in other respects.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2022
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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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“Windiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/windiness. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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