soliloquizing

Definition of soliloquizingnext
present participle of soliloquize

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Verb
  • Broadly speaking, the panel was addressed to the arts, not only the visual arts but also all forms of writing, including journalism.
    John McPhee, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The hosts are frequently seen with little makeup and shiny faces, speaking to each other from home offices or bare-bones studios.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • From the whitewashing controversy to the toxic love to the daring costumes, the discourse is going to be discoursing.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The project has gained attention far beyond the synagogue’s walls, and elicited a range of mourning practices that go beyond reciting the traditional prayer.
    Stewart Ain, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Newman often seems to be reciting his lyrics, even incanting them, reverent and repetitive.
    Elizabeth Nelson, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • More often, though, Tallent demonstrates his characters’ precarity rather than declaiming about it.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Should the guy who spends his spare time dodging bullets really be lecturing him on death wishes?
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The irony here is that after spending decades lecturing China about the merits of free trade, the US is taking a page out of Beijing’s own state capitalist playbook.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • After haranguing the receptionist, he was eventually granted a 15-minute audience with Fujita, who advised his teenage devotee to focus on future technologies like computers.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That entanglement allowed Biden to traverse the country haranguing business on equity, climate, daycare, union labor, and other whole-of-government crusades—while taunting Republicans who relented for the sake of home-district dollars.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Known as the Dragon Slayer, he’s often shown meditating, praying, waxing philosophical, and pontificating on nobility, integrity and honor.
    Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • In the 1960s, Canadians hungered for public intellectuals pontificating on the distinctiveness of their identity.
    Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Is there an art to talking to famous people who are famously stoic about their personal life and famously put up boundaries everywhere?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There’s Larry Gagosian talking with Richard Serra with Tony Shafrazi in front of them.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Soliloquizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquizing. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.

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