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
  • That distinction speaks directly to the philosophy behind Khare’s show.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 June 2026
  • Putin speaks at the forum Friday.
    Natasha Lebedeva, NBC news, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • That 10-goal swing explains most of the standings drop.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Jerry Lanuzza, associate professor at Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina, explains how to store alcohol, whether alcohol goes bad, and how long different types will last.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • Halfway through, Mando is captured by Clone Wars’ bounty hunter Embo, who was voiced by Filoni on the show but never utters so much as a single line of dialogue here.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 22 May 2026
  • Yet Cornelius Krull, the patriarch, speaks only a German dialect and never utters more than two words.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • This documentary follows the recording during a six-day period in 2025 and, augmented by Bareilles’ trademark openness, expounds on the personal hardships and grief the songstress/actress endured the past several years.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • Jones also further expounds on the vampire’s wretched lineage and mythology through flashbacks.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Levels operates more like a metabolic health platform that interprets CGM data alongside other inputs.
    Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 27 May 2026
  • Scientists believe the effect is caused by how the human brain interprets distance and scale.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Mid-cap play Roger Lee, head of equity strategy at Cavendish, says mid-cap stocks could offer value if oil prices continue to fall, as lower energy prices ease pressure on inflation and interest rate expectations.
    Alex Buckmaster,Michael Considine, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • Congress has not authorized construction of a memorial arch on the federal land managed by the National Park Service, which Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, says is a first step required by statute before the government can move forward with construction.
    James Powel, USA Today, 5 June 2026
Verb
  • Basically, whenever John and Yoko talk about something vaguely abstract, Soderbergh elucidates his words with the help of Meta’s video-generative tools.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 15 May 2026
  • 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 7 Jun. 2026.

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