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Columnist Frank Rich of The New York Times crafted a clever sentence featuring the word logorrhea (thus implicitly rebuking those guilty of logorrhea — excessive, incoherent wordiness):

"Despite the lachrymose logorrhea of television anchors and the somber musical fanfares, the country was less likely to be found in deep mourning [for the death of President Gerald Ford] than in deep football."

Link: The Timely Death of Gerald Ford - New York Times

Posted January 8, 2007.

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• Extroverted, Outgoing, Outspoken, or Dramatic

Logorrhoea or logorrhea may refer to:

• Logorrhoea, a synonym of verbosity
• Logorrhea (psychology), a communication disorder resulting in incoherent talkativeness

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