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also monolog
as in speech
a long discourse delivered by a single person
His monologue on the failings of modern society continued long after everyone else had stopped listening.
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Recent Examples of monologue
The trail had become a stage, and the hike a kind of moving monologue.
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Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
In her opening monologue, Carpenter addressed the controversy around the Man’s Best Friend album cover.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2025
Hosts like Kristen Stewart, Sam Rockwell and Ariana Grande have all dropped uncensored profanity during their monologues or sketches.
—William Earl, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
The evening’s monologue was short and sweet, possibly because of the overtime college football game that cut into the show’s runtime.
—Charu Sinha, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2025
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Junnelle Hogen, Outside, 19 Oct. 2025
In her opening monologue, Carpenter addressed the controversy around the Man’s Best Friend album cover.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2025
Hosts like Kristen Stewart, Sam Rockwell and Ariana Grande have all dropped uncensored profanity during their monologues or sketches.
—William Earl, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
The evening’s monologue was short and sweet, possibly because of the overtime college football game that cut into the show’s runtime.
—Charu Sinha, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monologue
Noun
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Reagan’s speech is included in millions of administration records governed by the Presidential Record Act signed in 1981 by his predecessor, President Jimmy Carter.—
Bill Barrow,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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However, the ad selects and splices certain lines from the five-minute address rather than playing the remarks in the order they were delivered or reproducing the speech in its entirety.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The following insights are drawn from Shapiro’s remarks during a guest lecture in my undergraduate Strategy and Organization class at McGill University.—
Karl Moore,
Forbes.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Amid the doom and gloom of the impending shutdown, Auerbach stops his trailside lecture to offer us a glint of hope.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Even the man who wrote eloquent romantic soliloquies that have endured centuries still royally pissed off his wife on the regular.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Following his viral soliloquy, Scheffler went on to win the Open Championship with a score of 17-under, finishing four strokes ahead of Harris English.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 July 2025
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After 2018, Jin transformed Zion Church into a semi-virtual network, uploading sermons online and encouraging members around the country to gather and watch sessions together.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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Two men who represent two different bastions of power — God and country — in Oklahoma are making sermons of a kind.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Monologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monologue. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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