dissert

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissert
Verb
  • The supplemental essays are a critical opportunity for students to share their voice and expound on their candidacy.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In 1882, Junius Henri Browne, a writer for Harper’s Magazine, expounded on a highly relatable problem.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
    Vulture, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
    Jared Yates Sexton, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
Verb
  • An irritating habit of his is to stop by and launch into long-winded stories about some mundane event in his present or past life or to pontificate about a current event.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The actor took it as an opportunity to pontificate about the role the dog plays in the movie and to David Corenswet’s titular character.
    Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
Verb
  • Not just when Juicy soliloquizes across the proscenium or Tedra casts us some side-eye.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Not everyone can soliloquize like Gaga.
    Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Sep. 2022
Verb
  • The inclusion on one concourse wall of the poem ‘Goodison is forever’ that PJ Smith recited at the old ground’s final act as the home of the men’s team in May is another neat touch.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In her decision, Judge Burroughs was obviously persuaded by Harvard’s narrative of the case and recited much of it.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Dissert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissert. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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