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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissert
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Combined with David Ricardo (1772-1823), another influential British economist who expounded on the benefits of free trade with his theory of comparative advantage, by the mid-19th century laissez-faire became the central tenet to what was then a burgeoning discipline: economics.—
Made by History,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025 -
Maine high school athlete Cassidy Carlisle expounded on her message to Gov. Janet Mills as the state continued to thumb its nose as President Donald Trump and maintain its transgender-athlete policies in girls' and women’s sports.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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The Fed has also branched out into other areas beyond the money supply, pontificating on inequality, climate, race, and other issues.—
The Editors,
National Review,
22 Apr. 2025
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The writer, so able to pontificate at length about ideas, struggles to untangle his feelings for both women.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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Not just when Juicy soliloquizes across the proscenium or Tedra casts us some side-eye.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2023
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Not everyone can soliloquize like Gaga.—
Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
6 Sep. 2022
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On Sunday, April 27, the Hart of Dixie alum, 43, shared a video on her Instagram of her and a friend wearing Darth Vader masks and pressing a button on the side, prompting the toys to recite some classic Star Wars phrases.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Their employees could recite growth targets but couldn't articulate why those targets mattered beyond shareholder value.—
Nirmal Chhabria,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Dissert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissert. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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