dissert

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissert
Verb
  • Speaking to the Daily Mail on Thursday, Zhou expounded on her allegations.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Gently expounded with a God-like omniscience by an unseen narrator (Will Patton), Train Dreams takes place in a space between the then and the now, being simultaneously of the past and in the moment (Bentley plays with time in unexpected ways).
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • From a purple-pod terminalia tree a crimson-breasted shrike pontificated at us.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In the 1960s, Canadians hungered for public intellectuals pontificating on the distinctiveness of their identity.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 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 cast largely helps to keep things grounded, rebutting the histrionics by treating each claim with legitimacy or reciting each gauche line with apt conviction.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Tutivillus, who totted up all the mistakes clergymen made when singing hymns or reciting psalms.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Dissert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissert. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.

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