Verbs, buried alive.
“We made a decision” is “we decided” with two extra words and half the pulse. This desk finds nominalizations — verbs hiding inside nouns behind weak verbs like make, take, conduct, perform — and hands you the shovel.
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Nouns make lousy engines
A nominalization is a verb (or adjective) converted into a noun: decide → decision, investigate → investigation. The noun itself isn't wrong — but once the action sits in a noun, the sentence needs a chauffeur verb (make, take, conduct, perform) to drive it, and those verbs say nothing.
“The team conducted an investigation into the outage.”
“The team investigated the outage.” — same fact, 40% fewer words.
Academic and corporate writing leans on nominalizations to sound weighty; readers experience them as fog. Digging the verb out is the single fastest sentence-level edit after fixing passive voice — which is why the two desks live side by side.