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Shorten your writing with action verbs

Since grade school, we’ve assumed that adjectives are the most descriptive words out there. On the face of it, this is true: “a blue whale” is a lot more colorful (pun intended) than “a whale.” Adjectives specify our ideas. However, in a world of 140 characters or less, we simply lack the space for too [...]

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