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Six example sentences with verbose, each labelled with its topic.
The lease ran forty pages, so verbose that tenants missed the single clause about the parking fee.
Law
His early drafts were verbose, piling three clauses onto every image until an editor cut the novel by half.
Literature
The error log is so verbose that engineers grep for one line among thousands of harmless status messages.
Technology
The quarterly report was so verbose that the board asked for a single page summary before the next meeting.
Business
Students find Hegel verbose, wading through a page of clauses to reach a point a friend could explain in a sentence.
Philosophy
The first draft was verbose, with characters explaining their feelings in speeches that the final cut trimmed to a glance.
Movies
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