circuitousness

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Noun
  • Such developments represent a move toward making circularity a standard practice rather than a pilot-stage experiment.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Whether circularity guidelines and ESG targets focused on regenerative fibers will meet these demands remains to be seen.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Duco negates the need for any human intervention by leveraging a hanging robotic system that automatically sketches multi-layered circuity to enable novel large-scale interfaces.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Mazzone hopes that studying the neural circuity for coughing will eventually lead to new therapies.
    Sarah Zhang, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2012
Noun
  • This was only the start of the incomprehensibility of this segment.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, a diffusion model learned the finer details like small eddies and flows.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Inference costs are also now a major pressure point—one that may significantly slow AI diffusion across large enterprises.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • As a result, the impenetrability of EU bureaucracies will continue to limit the United States’ ability to restructure transatlantic economic relations.
    JENNIFER KAVANAGH, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The uncertainty over how the Supreme Court will rule could be an extra inducement for people suing Bayer to accept the pending deal, which is not dependent on the outcome of the case.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And du Rusquec’s quiet exit, without a media announcement or permanent replacement, adds to the uncertainty around the brand’s direction.
    Maliha Shoaib, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Flatulent describes inflated, pretentious writing; garrulity describes excessive talkativeness.
    Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Noun
  • Director Scott Ellis understands all this, and thus the admirably specific physical business and slurred verbosity in his gently outré revival really makes for quite the amusing diversion.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Director Scott Ellis understands all this and thus the admirably specific physical business and slurred verbosity in his gently outré revival really makes for quite the amusing diversion.
    Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Circuitousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circuitousness. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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