dissert

verb

Definition of dissertnext
as in to expound

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissert
  1. expound
  2. sermonize
  3. pontificate
  4. soliloquize
  5. recite
Verb
  • Yet the long sections summarizing various events or expounding on capitalism, naive idealism, and violence turn out to be as engaging as any page-turner for the reader with the persistence to soldier on.
    Ilana Masad, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The award, titled after a line in Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929), which expounds on the financial independence underpinning artistic accomplishment, has grown tremendously since its founding.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of expound
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
Definition of sermonize
Verb
  • Nobody can know for sure what the future of luxury holds, but last month Robb Report brought together a host of industry insiders to pontificate on the subject.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Mangione posted extensively in favor of experimentation with psychedelic drugs on social media and pontificated on trends in tech.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of pontificate
Verb
  • 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
Definition of soliloquize
Verb
  • The pair sang the peace anthem toward the end of the funeral service, before the congregation recited the Lord's Prayer.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Yearwood performed the peaceful song before the church recited the Lord’s Prayer.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of recite
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