commentates

present tense third-person singular of commentate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for commentates
Verb
  • Pretending to be the smart person who annotates their books can lead to becoming that person.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Across fiction, documentary, and hybrid forms, these filmmakers are building a cinema that speaks first to themselves, and, in doing so, to everyone else.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Marina Abramović speaks to the audience during a post-show discussion following a performance of Masquerade in New York City.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • But as Lilly explains to Ronnie, telling the truth now won’t do anything to absolve Hank — everyone already thinks Lilly is crazy.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • At the train station when Kelley is about to depart, Howie explains his backstory to keep Kelley from leaving.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The first words Mariah Carey utters on her 16th studio album are quintessential diva.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The season 2 finale centered around a tornado destroying the store, when Brett utters his only line of dialogue in the series as the storm approaches.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • His post makes no mention of upcoming future dates in the tour, nor expounds on the nature of the threat.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Scream With Me expands on this argument with its analysis of The Exorcist, a movie that Johnson interprets as a parable about physical abuse; its male demon torments and beats a single working mother and her child.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • About the Technology The new AI engine is designed to automatically interprets goals, constraints, and deliverables to generate structured project plans — complete with milestones, dependencies, and timelines.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Boals Moeller says the recent AI breakthrough is no different.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • People with a nonfunctioning ANGPTL3 gene — which Natarajan says applies to about 1 in 250 people in the US — have lifelong levels of low LDL cholesterol and triglycerides without any apparent negative consequences.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The rapidity and the terseness of the onscreen action leaps from scene to scene, from event to event, from one salient point to the next, with nothing incidental in between, nothing revealing anything besides what directly elucidates the story as Polanski chooses to tell it.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Commentates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commentates. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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