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Six example sentences with prolix, each labelled with its topic.
The manuscript was so prolix that her editor cut ninety pages and readers noticed nothing missing.
Literature
The contract's prolix indemnity clause runs eleven pages, and both sides pay lawyers simply to summarize it.
Law
His prolix quarterly memo arrives each January, and the team has learned that only the final page matters.
Business
The treatise is so prolix that its central claim arrives on page four hundred, after a chapter on definitions alone.
Philosophy
The senator's prolix speech ran past midnight, and reporters discovered afterward that he had read the phone book.
Politics
The director's prolix voiceover explains every scene twice, and the film would improve simply by muting it.
Movies
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