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Recent Examples of orotund But the extravagance of Tudor self-aggrandizement is almost comical, and it wasn’t limited to the orotund Henry plastering his face onto biblical kings. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022 Novoselov had a boisterous, orotund way of talking that even the interpreter seemed to have trouble making sense of. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for orotund
Adjective
  • Bravo to Netflix for their ringing endorsement of biodiversity with its commitment to purchase Funga’s carbon credits.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • James Outman hit a ringing double and Minnesota star Byron Buxton followed with an RBI triple.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Smoothing round poppy seeds and sea salt—which do the gentle buffing—come suspended in a hunk of detoxifying French blue clay, nourishing olive fruit oil, and zingy peppermint essential oil, the latter of which wakes you up better than any iPhone alarm.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Sloomoo is the brand’s adorable shape-shifting mascot, which isn’t round or straight, and isn’t small or tall, but because it’s made of slime, can stretch into any shape at all.
    Sharon Edelson, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Two days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a rhetorical gap between Arizona politicos highlighted a major split for the congressional delegation, with some members turning to other matters or saying nothing at all.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer has taken an increasingly hard rhetorical line on immigration.
    Alexander Smith, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Ditto the auxiliary singers, particularly Greene, who paired a deep, sonorous bass range with enthusiastic dance moves that underlined the across-the-board camaraderie.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
  • On Pressing Onward, Freedia is creating her own religious experience of sorts — one that marries the powerful peaks and sonorous valleys of gospel with the irrepressible, relentless energy of bounce.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Flashing lights and reverberant noises may send pets into a frenzy over the holiday.
    Logan Holland, People.com, 4 July 2025
  • Written soon after the death of Mahler’s daughter and soon before his own, the symphony is a sombre, reflective, and reverberant adieu, brewing such melancholy that Leonard Bernstein theorized that Mahler was foretelling his own end.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Much of the Southeast, especially the southern Appalachians, remains on track for an on-time and vibrant peak foliage.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Among the 35 hues are trendy cool tones, conventional nudes, vibrant reds, and bold, creative colors like magenta and blackish-purple.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • What makes these moments so powerful is the level of creativity, production, and storytelling quality that fans bring to their creations, transforming casual fandom into shared content that feels polished, inventive, and culturally resonant.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Led by scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the team used a technique called resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS).
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The rotund bomb is similar to the one used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Never a perfect circle, but dependably rotund, the doughnuts are large enough to tear at greedily and still last the entire drive home.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Orotund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orotund. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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