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a long, usually serious spoken discourse that a character in a play delivers to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts
Hamlet's famous soliloquy
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Recent Examples of soliloquy
First Debate: The two-hour debate was frequently chaotic and rife with soliloquies on everything from e-bikes and housing to the president’s deportation agenda and Israel.
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 10 June 2025
The score becomes grand and syrupy whenever there’s a big emotional revelation; characters deliver solemn soliloquies on the orderly beauty of math.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
The static figures act like a metronome, marking time between the stanzas of his sharp-witted soliloquies and dialogues; the gestures and expressions function as stage directions.
—Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
Trump then launched into a lengthy soliloquy about how the law had been weaponized against him and the role of law firms in that unfair treatment.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2025
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, 10 June 2025
The score becomes grand and syrupy whenever there’s a big emotional revelation; characters deliver solemn soliloquies on the orderly beauty of math.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
The static figures act like a metronome, marking time between the stanzas of his sharp-witted soliloquies and dialogues; the gestures and expressions function as stage directions.
—Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
Trump then launched into a lengthy soliloquy about how the law had been weaponized against him and the role of law firms in that unfair treatment.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquy
Noun
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The assailant stopped mid-speech and delivered two blows straight to Antao’s face.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Youngkin didn’t mention the upcoming Virginia election in his close-to-hour-long speech.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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The Kimmel controversy erupted after conservatives criticized a Kimmel monologue comment about the MAGA responses to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.—
Elizabeth Wagmeister,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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Though some does indeed come from dialogue, a surprising amount of information comes from the characters’ inner monologues — think of the camp Japanese sci-fi Spectreman — as the demon slayers prepare for battle, usually with the architect of their own personal tragedy.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Trump touched on those issues as well in a rambling UN address that more closely resembled his campaign speech, filled with attacks and lists of achievements.—
Daniel Bush,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Sep. 2025
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The electrolyzer’s design addresses fouling, current distribution, and thermal management, which are common failure points for electrochemical systems receiving heterogeneous feedstocks.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Sep. 2025
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The impulse to criticize, lecture, or clamp down hard comes from a place of pain.—
Robyn Koslowitz,
Parents,
19 Sep. 2025
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At the other end of the bar, Don was smirking as though looking forward to the lecture Odette was going to give Charlie.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Sep. 2025
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North Korea has made significant advances in its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in the absence of talks.—
Stella Kim,
NBC news,
26 Sep. 2025
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During a bedtime conversation between Kaz and Caesar, for example, their dog keeps licking Caesar as Kaz tries to have a serious talk with him.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Soliloquy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquy. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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