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bloviates

verb

present tense third-person singular of bloviate

as in declaims

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Woody Harrelson declaims every line, upping the relentless factor of Phil’s mania.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026

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Indeed, the Abbé pontificates on pretty much every topic known to man as the pair try in vain to tunnel their way to freedom.

— Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
That’s especially true for one of its two main narrators, Verity, an aging franchise movie star who acts, thinks, and pontificates like an adolescent.

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025

Definition of pontificates

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And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.

— Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025

Definition of rants

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Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts.

— Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025

Definition of spouts

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But first, the premiere settles the audience into a tried and true cop drama with power struggles over jurisdiction, a local militia led by a man with his own agenda, and a suspect who literally blows the case wide open.

— Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
The next chance of showers and storms arrives Thursday and lingers through the end of the workweek as much muggier-feeling weather blows back into Maryland.

— Cutter Martin, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026

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