1
as in lectures
to give a formal often extended talk on a subject
an English professor who loves to descant on his beloved Shakespeare
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variants
also discants
1
as in madrigals
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as in observations
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for descants
Verb
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Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026 -
When not writing, May frequently lectures on the politics and policies of mass incarceration for university classes, academic conferences, and online events.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
Verb
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As the crowd chants largely out of sight, heavy automatic gunfire can be heard for 15 uninterrupted seconds.—
Marin Scott,
NBC news,
14 Jan. 2026
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The Barmy Army chants restart as the England players partly walk over to applaud them.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The team relied on computer models, the observations of fish found in nature, and their own creation to come up with a basic theory.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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Using modern dating techniques, a joint team of scientists and academics from China, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Wales analyzed pigment samples in a laboratory and compared the findings with observations made at the cave.—
Elmira Aliieva,
NBC news,
1 June 2026
Verb
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January 20 – February 18 Friends may call, yet your muse speaks louder.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
30 May 2026
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Unlike at the Center, a solidly bipartisan roster of lecturers speaks to students at the Harvard institute.—
Daniel Rivero,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2026
Verb
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His older daughter, Dahlia, sings one of the songs from the musical.—
Mo Rocca,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
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The multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, who rocks an early era Maxwell ‘fro, plays drums, plucks bass, and sings about the ups and downs of love and consumerism on his new album, LK99.—
Elise Brisco,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2026
Noun
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Pelley’s scathing remarks immediately leaked to outside news outlets and ignited a crisis inside CBS.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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Her remarks came just hours after Romania requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday following a Russian drone strike that hit a residential building in the Romanian city of Galați on May 29.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
Verb
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The agreement comes after the Israeli government threatened to escalate its actions in Lebanon — a move that threatens to derail the US-Iran talks.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Below, Boston talks to Deadline about her unique writing process, the thematic heart of the series and why the show’s shocking finale ultimately functions as a breakup story.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
4 June 2026
Noun
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Unlike her first album, the compositions rarely built toward pop choruses or easy, identifiable emotion.—
Sam Sodomsky,
Pitchfork,
24 May 2026
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But there are no verses, and those choruses are surrounded by a series of instrumental passages with intricate guitar solos and tempo changes.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
22 May 2026
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“Descants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descants. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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