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Recent Examples of bloviateDirector Rian Johnson winkingly hung a 1961 Mark Rothko abstraction upside down, as a nod to Bron’s bloviating ignorance.—Jay Cheshes, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2023 And will Washington have the resources to hire someone who can actually compete with Oregon, not just bloviate about academic standards?—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2021 Gentry is not the coach to hold hands, bloviate with stern lectures or meticulously guide a young team through the developmental process.—Scott Kushner, NOLA.com, 12 Aug. 2020 Unfortunately, rather than acknowledge reality and help plan not only for what's coming but also for what's already here, some politicians prefer to bloviate while exploiting misfortune for partisan gain.—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2017 See All Example Sentences for bloviate
But expect more than a few awards pundits to declaim that the Academy, finally, has no other choice but to present Park Chan-wook with his first Oscar nomination.
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Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Oct. 2025
Yours to treasure: to recite under your breath, to whisper in someone’s ear, to declaim at a party.
Truman would never have harangued the international community that America is First, or obstructed every effort to better the lot of humanity by asking what’s in it for the U.S., not in coming decades but during this news cycle.
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Andreas Kluth,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
Philadelphia Phillies fan Drew Feltwell wants people to lay off the woman who harangued him and his son over a home run ball at a game last week.
Rather than the writer pontificating about how Pfleger needs to retire from active priesthood, how about a better use of his time by advocating the notion that pedophile priests should be retired to jail.
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Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
Platonic’s first season stacks the deck with cues pointing toward the most obvious direction for this story: a West Coast streaming riff on When Harry Met Sally, complete with characters pontificating as to whether (straight) men and women can ever just be friends.
Cheung played a tape of Nicholson ranting and raving at the Kaiser facility in Irvine.
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City News Service,
Oc Register,
22 Oct. 2025
She is outwardly spoken against transgender rights and has ranted several times about Representative Sarah McBride, an openly transgender member of Congress, and her pronouns.
Now everyone seems to own a gun and have a far-right sign in their front yard; even her once liberal ex-boyfriend is spouting misinformation about Haitian immigrants.
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Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
In tossing the suit, Judge Vargas compared rap diss tracks to forums like YouTube and X where people are able to spout off, as opposed to anything resembling journalistic reporting or straight news.
Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.
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Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
As for fighting the Trump pressure campaign, even politicians as ambitious as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker are mostly left to file lawsuits — and fulminate.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2025
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