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empty words

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoricnoun

    loud and confused and empty talk

    "mere rhetoric"

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  1. Empty Words

    Empty Words: Writings '73–'78 is a book by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1979 by Wesleyan University Press.

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  1. empty words

    Empty words, also known as "filler words," are words or phrases that do not add any significant meaning to a statement or sentence. They are often used to fill gaps in speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer extra time to think or giving the text a more conversational flow. Examples of empty words include "like", "you know", "actually", "basically", "seriously", et cetera. These words are largely considered superfluous and are advised to be avoided in formal writing or public speaking settings.

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  1. Empty Words

    Empty Words: Writings ’73–’78 is a book by American avant-garde composer John Cage, first published in 1979 by Wesleyan University Press. The book contains the following works: ⁕"Foreword" ⁕"Preface to Lecture on the Weather" ⁕"How the Piano Came to be Prepared" ⁕"Empty Words" ⁕"Where Are We Eating? and What Are We Eating?" ⁕"Series re Morris Graves" ⁕"Sixty-One Mesostics Re and Not Re Norman O. Brown" ⁕"Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake" ⁕"The Future of Music" Also included are the following mesostics: ⁕"Many Happy Returns" ⁕"A Long Letter" ⁕"Song" ⁕"For S. Fort, Dancer" ⁕"For William Mc N. Who studied with Ezra Pound" ⁕"Wright's Oberlin House Restored by E. Johnson" ⁕"'I'm the happiest person I know'"

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of empty words in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of empty words in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of empty words in a Sentence

  1. Fu Xuejun:

    The government must rescue the market, not with empty words, but with real silver and gold, it's a disaster. If it's not, what is it?

  2. Greta Thunberg:

    This is all wrong, i shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

  3. George Sand:

    Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

  4. Joe Biden:

    I do not accept a world where we can not stand up and say' no more' to the voices that offer empty words in the aftermath of tragedy, then oppose change and fuel this cycle of carnage, together, we can defeat the NRA and end this epidemic.

  5. Velma Lisa Duran:

    We're sitting just here listening to empty words, these kids were obliterated.


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