Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissert
Verb
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The comment in open court by attorney Christopher Parente, who represents Oak Park Trustee Brian Straw, was not expounded upon, and further discussion of the matter was done in the judge’s chambers.—
Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026 -
The wretched conditions prompt a brainy clerk (Eiza González, who expounds impressively on the heady Marxist concept of dialectical materialism) to join the Velvet Gang.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
Verb
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At least my mother was one of those who sermonized that sentiment.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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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
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Perhaps Pfleger would be well advised to stick to his faith and his flock and to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, rather than to continue to pontificate from the pulpit — or even the paper.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026
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Cable news anchors pontificated on the possible environmental toll were the Al Salmi’s cargo of two million barrels of crude discharged into the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
1 Apr. 2026
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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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To honor her memory, one of Owens' children recited a poem.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
2 June 2026
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My teacher selected me to recite a Mother’s Day poem.—
Joseph O’Neill,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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“Dissert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissert. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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