monologue

variants 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 Last night, the singer-songwriter addressed the furor during his monologue on the Season 51 opening episode of Saturday Night Live. Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2025 Now who will give Bad Bunny monologue advice this time? Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025 This movie asks you to listen closely to the dialogue, as there are a number of extended monologues that provide historical backdrop. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025 Doja Cat stepped out midway through the monologue with Questlove to reenact a scene from The Real Housewives of Miami. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for monologue
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Noun
  • The documentary shows Monica filming Weston on her phone during his speech and, again, later when he was being interviewed by the media.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The group and its nearly 20,000 members have become so influential that top politicians from both sides of the aisle have given speeches at the conference.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Goodall’s speaking tours brought her to Miami on many occasions, including an April 2023 lecture at Florida International University’s Ocean Bank Convocation Center and, a decade earlier, to the University of Miami’s BankUnited Center (now Watsco Center) in April 2013.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • This essay was adapted from the Christ Church, Oxford 500th anniversary lecture.
    Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • With the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield ignites the first Great Awakening, uniting an entire generation with his thundering and faithful sermons and proclamations of liberty.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Crashing into Grattan’s church as the reverend delivers a pseudoscientific sermon about a looming apocalypse, Rafferty gives Grattan his own taste of what the end of the world might look like by choking him with an eel.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Monologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monologue. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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