70 Wordy and Redundant Phrases to Avoid in Your Writing

Bookmark this handy guide

Laura Mondragón
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readOct 22, 2019

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[Author’s note: After publishing this post, l encountered over 100 more phrases that could be shortened or eliminated. Click here to read Part 2 of this guide and here to read Part 3.]

You may think that using more words gives your writing flair, but it’s the quality, not the quantity, of the words…

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