filibustering 1 of 2

filibustering

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verb

present participle of filibuster

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for filibustering
Verb
  • The same woman Don had been lecturing about beer.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The following photos feature him reading on a train, posing with students, standing next to a sculpture and lecturing in front of the class.
    Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows promised swift action and vowed to brook no more stalling tactics from Democrats.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Two-thirds of givers admit to procrastinating family wealth-transfer conversations, according to a national RBC Wealth Management survey.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The shooting at the ICE facility came just two weeks after a gunman perched atop a building at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, shot and killed Kirk as the 31-year-old co-founder of the conservative grass roots organization Turning Point USA was speaking to a large crowd at an outdoor event.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Climate scientist Johan Rockström, speaking at a science briefing that opened the summit, warned that warming appears to be accelerating.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Host Jimmy Kimmel milked the moment, delaying confirming that their answer was correct for a very tense minute.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Boys may experience greater benefits from delaying their start date compared to girls, said Ioakim Boutakidis, professor of child and adolescent studies at Cal State Fullerton.
    Erick Trevino, AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Further, there’s no excuse for Congress to continue dawdling on farm policy.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • That entanglement allowed Biden to traverse the country haranguing business on equity, climate, daycare, union labor, and other whole-of-government crusades—while taunting Republicans who relented for the sake of home-district dollars.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Tuesday’s report is likely to be viewed favorably by the president, who has spent the past months haranguing Fed Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Violet Affleck, the eldest daughter of A-listers Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, is sounding the alarm on the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Repressed and lingering scars from childhood can certainly cause pain for entire communities and be a catalyst for terrible and reprehensible behaviors.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Filibustering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filibustering. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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