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- noun Common misspelling of
verbiage .
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I've been in verbage proliferation mode for a few weeks, and it feels good, but I always read what I have on the page so I can get back into it, and there I find a few walls to slam into.
[Writing] Visions of writing dancing in my head joshenglish 2009
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But one has to ask why artists and curators think such nonsensical verbage is required?
October 2007 2007
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The problem (and the beauty for elections) of your verbage is it all sounds good, but never succeeds in the least when it gets implemented.
Sound Politics: Re: GOP Legislative Candidates Are Toast in the Burbs Until ... 2006
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Taking out the excess verbage, is their argument that 1) there were gays in the military, 2) all gays are into bondage, therefore the gays asked to be tied up?
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I remember Dodd saying clearly on camera that he had "NO KNOWLEDGE" of how certain verbage that allowed enormous bonuses to executives of bailed out banks got into a bill, and passed the blame to others, .. (
Biden: Dodd is 'getting the living hell beat out of him' 2009
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Palin arguably mispronounces of a few words - "pundants," "nucular," "verbage" - and I can see how that could evoke memories of Bush.
Sean Hannity interviews Sarah Palin. Ann Althouse 2008
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This is quite a broad and non-specific statement (perhaps the democrats wish the verbage was a tad more restrictive now, but hindsight is 20/20) … I mean “all necessary and appropriate FORCE” and “those nations, organizations or persons HE determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks” … wicked broad.
Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism 2005
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USAliberty4evr wrote: User, your verbage is the confirming fact that you have been indoctrinated, and its certain you probably believe the party slogans.
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User, your verbage is the confirming fact that you have been indoctrinated, and its certain you probably believe the party slogans.
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The Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot and this country BETTER start getting this straightened out before they fall for all this bleeding "verbage" that's being thrown at us.
Last minute Clinton ad: 'What has happened to Barack Obama?' 2008
frindley commented on the word verbage
The most revealing moment happened earlier, when Palin was asked about Obama's attack on McCain's claim that the fundamentals of the economy are sound. "Well," Palin said, "it was an unfair attack on the verbage that Senator McCain chose to use, because the fundamentals, as he was having to explain afterwards, he means our workforce, he means the ingenuity of the American people. And of course that is strong, and that is the foundation of our economy. So that was an unfair attack there, again, based on verbage that John McCain used." This is certainly doing rather more than mere talking, and what is being done is the coinage of "verbage." It would be hard to find a better example of the Republican disdain for words than that remarkable term, so close to garbage, so far from language.
From "A Critic's Notebook: Verbage: The Republican war on words" by James Wood
The New Yorker, October 13, 2008
October 20, 2008