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soliloquizing

verb

present participle of soliloquize
as in speaking

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquizing
  1. speaking
  2. discoursing
  3. reciting
  4. declaiming
  5. lecturing
  6. haranguing
  7. pontificating
  8. talking
Verb
  • But the Bulls expressed definite interest in Kuminga, according to a league source speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss front-office strategy.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Meteorologically speaking, there are precisely 2,157 hours, or about 89 days, in an autumn in Chicago.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of speaking
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
Definition of discoursing
Verb
  • Bowie allegedly told other users about her oath and shared the audio file of her reciting the pledge with them.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The process can take many forms – journaling, reciting the Psalm, YouTubing the Shofar, giving tzedakah, meditating, reading.
    — Risa Polansky Shiman, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of reciting
Verb
  • And the conversations between Anna and Molly, Ella and Julia (Ella’s friend and a counterpart of Molly), as well as the stammering and declaiming when Anna talks to herself, are almost always about men.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • More often, though, Tallent demonstrates his characters’ precarity rather than declaiming about it.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
Definition of declaiming
Verb
  • Especially for him in the same interview to be lecturing my party on democracy and norms.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Before long, at the height of France’s own student protests, in 1968, Ascherson was lecturing at the Sorbonne on post-Stalinist revolutionary ideas and tactics.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of lecturing
Verb
  • During testimony this week, Warsh sought to emphasize his independence from the White House, which was called into question after months of Trump haranguing Powell over interest rates.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • Benatia got a three-month suspension for haranguing a fourth official.
    — Tom Williams, New York Times, 17 May 2026
Definition of haranguing
Verb
  • The language of a sociopath is very easy to have a mustached, twirly guy speaking and pontificating and vaguely threatening tropes, but to really give him a kind of humanity, vulnerability.
    — Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Over the course of the last three weeks, some of the biggest names in the business of reporting on (and pontificating about) sports media have transformed themselves into a scruffy simulacrum of the town elders from Footloose.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of pontificating
Verb
  • This is Edward, the aging King of England, talking to the ambitious noble Harold Godwinson.
    — John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • While talking with reporters Wednesday, Payton was asked how Denver was preparing for Mahomes, who is coming off major knee surgery in December.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of talking
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“Soliloquizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquizing. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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