While these are useful, they often add wordiness and length to sentences for no reason. Instead of an infinitive phrase, try using finite verbs or noun phrases. Circumlocutions are commonly used ...

Bourke summarizes some of the circumlocutions soldiers and analysts have chosen to use when talking about deadly weapons: Napalm was called a ‘flak suppression weapon.’ Cluster bombs that ...

Heikki Lampela is a strikingly handsome 25-year-old Finn with a magnificent square jaw and a massive smile that takes up his whole face. It branches out from his mouth in squared-off semi-circles ...

Nor would EviCore always use the word “denials” — they employed circumlocutions like “inappropriate determinations.” Aetna ...

The computer-generated voice used pauses, colloquialisms and circumlocutions usually present in human speech. The voice was under control of Google's DeepMind WaveNet software that has been ...

His patterns of derailment (switching from one topic or thought to another without a logical connection), circumlocutions (struggling to find the right word and using descriptions instead ...

Cuban authorities go through strained circumlocutions to deny the existence of political prisoners in Cuba. Despite his admission that Cuban law bars vocal opposition to Castro and other officials ...

This is what The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, has described as the “bias toward coherence,” and it leads to ...

The Supreme Court at Washington may reverse the decision of the District Court, and then, atter that, a long trial by Jury will have to put the cap on the whole ot the circumlocutions of the ...

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