as in commentary
a series of explanations or observations on something (as an event)
on Monday mornings she usually gives her coworkers a detailed play-by-play on how her weekend date went
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Outside the portfolio, Walmart also reports, and all of Wall Street will be paying close attention to the retail giant’s numbers and management commentary as well.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
17 Aug. 2025 -
Yet that is what the author of this recent commentary appears to believe.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Aug. 2025
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Financing for oil, gas, and coal projects from the top six US banks fell to $73 billion in the first seven months of the year, down 25% from the same period last year, according to a Bloomberg analysis.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Additional analysis showed that around 70 percent of these LRDs displayed evidence of gas swirling around 2 million miles per hour—solid indicators of accretion disks surrounding supermassive black holes.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Play-by-play.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/play-by-play. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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