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dissert

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Definition of dissert

as in to expound

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This is in part because, whether owing to shrinking foreign-news budgets or to a reluctance to have individual correspondents expound on such a broad array of topics and countries, careers like Ascherson’s barely exist anymore.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
In 2002 Thompson’s children expounded on the story and took issue with a number of Lange’s recollections, particularly that the family had sold their tires for food.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of expound

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Congress has also shown an affinity for weighing in on sports disputes—consider the airtime members of Congress receive when sermonizing on the state of college sports.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 2 July 2026
At least my mother was one of those who sermonized that sentiment.

— Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026

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The language of a sociopath is very easy to have a mustached, twirly guy speaking and pontificating and vaguely threatening tropes, but to really give him a kind of humanity, vulnerability.

— Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026
Over the course of the last three weeks, some of the biggest names in the business of reporting on (and pontificating about) sports media have transformed themselves into a scruffy simulacrum of the town elders from Footloose.

— Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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