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Recent Examples of loquacity
Homeless and short on cash, the rakish Saber uses his talent for loquacity to insinuate himself into the life (and house) of estranged wife Lexi (Bree Elrod) and mother-in-law Lil (Brenda Deiss), while resuming his old job as a low-rent pot dealer for neighborhood kingpin Leondria (Judy Hill).
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Erik Morse, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2021
The central bank’s pathological loquacity—policy statements, detailed meeting minutes, press conferences, speeches, interviews and those infernal dot plots—has become more confusing than enlightening.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
Such loquacity doesn’t come cheap, not just in terms of paying your writers and cast but also in capturing actors’ performances.
—Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
His age, at times, has been painfully apparent on the campaign trail: his loquacity is less bounded, his stories meander without necessarily reaching their conclusion.
—The Economist, 4 July 2020
These layabouts wreak enough havoc, what with their aimless loquacity and their tendencies to monopolize wall outlets.
—Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
Erik Morse, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2021
The central bank’s pathological loquacity—policy statements, detailed meeting minutes, press conferences, speeches, interviews and those infernal dot plots—has become more confusing than enlightening.
—Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
Such loquacity doesn’t come cheap, not just in terms of paying your writers and cast but also in capturing actors’ performances.
—Alexander Chatziioannou, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2022
His age, at times, has been painfully apparent on the campaign trail: his loquacity is less bounded, his stories meander without necessarily reaching their conclusion.
—The Economist, 4 July 2020
These layabouts wreak enough havoc, what with their aimless loquacity and their tendencies to monopolize wall outlets.
—Justin Peters, Slate Magazine, 20 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loquacity
Noun
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Blight argues persuasively that Douglass’s eloquence transformed the speech into an enduring historical marker — a profound moment of national self-examination that reverberates across generations.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
4 July 2025
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Yet beneath this polished surface lies a troubling reality that Apple's latest research has brought into sharp focus: eloquence is not intelligence, and imitation is not understanding.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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This memo follows a directive from the Department of Transportation requiring English fluency for commercial truck drivers.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
The Washington Examiner,
14 July 2025
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Google’s pitch for designing a chatbot for younger kids centers around safely building fluency in a technology that is already omnipresent.—
Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
14 July 2025
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“Loquacity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loquacity. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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