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How does one learn to write like this?

Read books. Actual books. The kind made from dead trees.

The more you read, the better you write. That's why our teachers drilled the importance of reading into us at such an early age.

But it was not a good expression or sign of a good writing.

I would not mind that much, but you are turning "reading a lot" into a cause of clunky writing. It is not so.

Read and write a lot. Read from varied sources. Write every day, about different topics.

Look words up often, even when you think you know what they mean. Nowadays LLMs are really helpful dictionaries and reverse dictionaries too.

Reading a lot and writing a lot does not necessary leads to clunky unusual expressions. If you put a little effort in it, you can easily come up with more natural sounding expressions.

My public highschool English teacher.