commentates

Definition of commentatesnext
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
  • Atkinson plays the titular role, a clueless man who lives alone, rarely speaks, and struggles to exist as a functional adult in the world.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference Greg Sankey speaks during a roundtable discussion on college sports in the East Room on Friday, March 6, 2026.
    CBS News, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • But they were chosen as the targets for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) to assess our planetary defense capabilities, Makadia explains.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
  • In the first episode, the peacemaking mission between Josh and Seth, in rural Montana, completely falls apart, and the mediator—who explains that this is his first official mediation—mostly just stands there as the neighbors trade insults and issue threats.
    Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The phrase also sometimes is used as a battle cry and has been employed by those with a nefarious agenda to instill fear of anyone who utters it and to raise concerns about Islam itself, according to Muslim scholars and civil rights advocates.
    Michelle Krupa, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Falduto utters the words as his character Billy to Dewey, playing the opinionated student who becomes the stylist for the band.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Digital and tech journalist Taylor Lorenz expounds upon the influence of the digital space called social media in her book, Extremely Online.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • On this week’s episode of Good One, Gethard — whose latest special, A Father and the Sun, debuted this past September — expounds on these ideas by outlining what pursuing a creative career used to look like, where things went wrong, and where artists must go from here.
    Chris Gethard, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Congress writes laws, but federal agencies like the EPA write the regulations that explain how the federal government interprets and enforces those laws.
    Sean Tucker, AJC.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Awabi interprets and expresses algae colors according to her ancestors’ hermetic aesthetics.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • State media says the ship is designed to handle various weapons systems, including antiair and anti-naval weapons, as well as nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The simple strategy that spawned the Aflac duck The experiences that a long-serving CEO accumulates bring wisdom, Amos says.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Mar. 2026
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 11 Mar. 2026.

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