soliloquize

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Recent Examples of soliloquize Not just when Juicy soliloquizes across the proscenium or Tedra casts us some side-eye. Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023 Not everyone can soliloquize like Gaga. Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Sep. 2022 Written by Vaiva Grainytė, scored by Lina Lapelytė and directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, the opera, which won the top prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale, unfolds over five hours as various performers soliloquize about the adversities of climate change. Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021 After all, no dentist is asked to soliloquize about how a tooth extraction reflects life choices. Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 One of which, thankfully, will involve Ahmed mournfully soliloquizing. Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquize
Verb
  • The presenters spoke their mother tongue (Farsi and Hindi), which was detected and translated in real-time to English.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025
  • The billionaire South African businessman, Johann Rupert, spoke forcefully too.
    Jonny Steinberg, Time, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • Some guests recited poetry, while others freestyled between sips of tea.
    Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2025
  • In the Hindu religion, daily prayers are an important spiritual practice that involve reciting various mantras and hymns to invoke blessings, wisdom, and peace throughout the day.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Verb
  • Yours to treasure: to recite under your breath, to whisper in someone’s ear, to declaim at a party.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Does Joyce’s fellow drama kid Alan (Eric Wiegand) hoist a skull aloft and declaim some Shakespeare in a bad English accent?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • There was no debate on education, for instance, the subject on which Cash had been most keen to expatiate; indeed, there were no debates at all.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2024
Verb
  • The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
    Vulture, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
    Jared Yates Sexton, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
Verb
  • During the broadcast Hudson interrupted a question about their relationship, leading to backlash and discourse over her role in the coach’s professional life.
    Glamour, Glamour, 12 May 2025
  • Hypothetical question sparks discourse Celebrity eaglets growing up fast as internet watches on: Meet Sunny and Gizmo River otters usually live up to 12.9 years in captivity, according to Oregon Zoo.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • Coaches, who represent their schools, are strongly encouraged to work with officials rather than harangue them.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 21 May 2025
  • Angela was introduced in the series premiere as the ex-wife of Tommy Norris (played by Billy Bob Thornton), seen only in haranguing FaceTime calls.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • These days, nothing infuriates liberals more than to be lectured about the American plutocracy — not when Trump is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt president to hold the office in modern history.
    Alexander Heffner, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2025
  • Maybe Healey can lecture them on how to sue Trump a hundred times and bankrupt a state on migrant hotel shelters.
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 27 May 2025

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“Soliloquize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquize. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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