For writers, “amazing” has become a word to avoid, says Michael Raleigh, author of the novels “The Blue Moon Circus” (2003) and “In the Castle of the Flynns” (2002).

The word “amazing” simply fails to amaze anymore. It’s high time for someone to put a halt on the most over-used adjective in the English language. All we hear these days is: &#82… ...

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Words once reserved for selective use — as in “The Grand Canyon is amazing” — have become trivialized — as in “those cheese and cracker hors d’oeuvres were amazing.” I know.

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Kate Gosselin kept it linguistically simple on the Emmy Awards red carpet Sunday in Los Angeles, jumping on the ubiquitous ‘amazing’ bandwagon to describe her first time at the show.

When it comes to writing clicky headlines, the value of the word ‘amazing’ cannot be overstated. Including the adjective can compound overall engagement by an astronomic 262 percent. Other ...

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