Moving the definition up 600 words = instant box

Moving the definition up 600 words = instant box
08:55 UTC — A fintech content lead shared the numbers privately. Their glossary page buried the actual definition under a 600-word intro about "why this matters in 2025." Competitor with a one-line answer at the top owned the snippet.
— They deleted the intro, opened with "X is..." in 38 words
— Snippet captured on the next major crawl, ~5 days
— Page went from page-2 invisibility to owning the answer box at organic #4
Why it matters: We're hearing this pattern again and again — Google lifts from the first clean definitional sentence it finds. Fluff intros aren't just boring, they physically bury the liftable passage. Kill the runway. Watching this.