dissert

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissert
Verb
  • The Washington Examiner attended a press conference held by Taiwanese Foreign Minister Chia-lung Lin on Thursday, where the head diplomat expounded upon the lessons learned from observing the violence unfolding in Eastern Europe.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • More Getty Images Reid declined to expound upon his point.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 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
  • Rather than the writer pontificating about how Pfleger needs to retire from active priesthood, how about a better use of his time by advocating the notion that pedophile priests should be retired to jail.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 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
  • Line of the week is Benito reciting a snippet of Pablo Neruda in Spanish.
    Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Most executives can recite their gross margin, customer acquisition cost and debt-to-equity ratio without glancing at a dashboard.
    Heather Yerrid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Dissert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissert. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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