soliloquize

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Recent Examples of soliloquize Not just when Juicy soliloquizes across the proscenium or Tedra casts us some side-eye. Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023 Not everyone can soliloquize like Gaga. Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Sep. 2022 Written by Vaiva Grainytė, scored by Lina Lapelytė and directed by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, the opera, which won the top prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale, unfolds over five hours as various performers soliloquize about the adversities of climate change. Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2021 After all, no dentist is asked to soliloquize about how a tooth extraction reflects life choices. Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022 One of which, thankfully, will involve Ahmed mournfully soliloquizing. Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquize
Verb
  • Kerr spoke to Green about the incidents on Friday and said the veteran had put the events behind him.
    Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 10 May 2025
  • Lions coach Dan Campbell empowered his assistant coaches to speak in front of the team, preparing Glenn to become the Jets coach.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
Verb
  • In fact, many frequent fliers can’t recite the reasons behind the rule, and others have forgotten to turn it on.
    Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2025
  • It is typically recited by popes, but was sung by Pope Leo.
    Sarah Ventre, NPR, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • Yours to treasure: to recite under your breath, to whisper in someone’s ear, to declaim at a party.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • Does Joyce’s fellow drama kid Alan (Eric Wiegand) hoist a skull aloft and declaim some Shakespeare in a bad English accent?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • There was no debate on education, for instance, the subject on which Cash had been most keen to expatiate; indeed, there were no debates at all.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Jan. 2024
Verb
  • The sermonizing lands hardest near the beginning and end of Life of Pi, where director Max Webster lets things get a little slack and starry-eyed.
    Vulture, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Raised in the segregated south, he was steeped in the tradition of Confederate preachers who sermonized to their flocks in the CSA on the holiness of white supremacy and characterized the Christian god as inherently racist.
    Jared Yates Sexton, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
Verb
  • Hypothetical question sparks discourse Celebrity eaglets growing up fast as internet watches on: Meet Sunny and Gizmo River otters usually live up to 12.9 years in captivity, according to Oregon Zoo.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • Hypothetical question sparks discourse Celebrity eaglets growing up fast as internet watches on: Meet Sunny and Gizmo Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The lack of respect from China was clear starting in March 2021, when the senior Chinese foreign policy official Yang Jiechi harangued U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a meeting in Anchorage about promoting U.S. democracy.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Several of those town halls – including in deeply Republican districts – went viral as residents harangued lawmakers over the cuts.
    Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In an extraordinary break between the two allies, Trump lectured Zelensky on his weak position in negotiations and in the war.
    James Hansen, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • This resilience makes Zelensky’s bristling at being lectured by Vance on his nation’s sacrifice and peril easier to understand.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Soliloquize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquize. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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