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Recent Examples of soliloquizeNot 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 After all, no dentist is asked to soliloquize about how a tooth extraction reflects life choices.—Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 24 Jan. 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 One of which, thankfully, will involve Ahmed mournfully soliloquizing.—Rebecca Keegan, vanityfair.com, 17 Oct. 2017
Stanton, expected to speak on Saturday, was still receiving treatment after Friday’s game.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
Ash Afanan, an analyst in LAHSA’s system and planning department who spoke in a personal capacity, said Friday staff are experiencing widespread fear following the layoff announcement.
At least my mother was one of those who sermonized that sentiment.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
Rahill is the master of male-loneliness epidemic comedy, and his best work absorbs the collective unconscious of the internet’s aimless single dudes who sermonize to their phones from front seats of cars in dead mall parking lots, then spits it back out as a ridiculous reflection.
While American pundits wrote haranguing op-eds warning that the breaking of diplomatic precedent would prompt China to escalate war, ordinary people in Taiwan celebrated.
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Michelle Kuo,
The Dial,
14 Apr. 2026
Most presidents have treated it as a chance to note their accomplishments, to harangue Congress into supporting their priorities, and to speak to the American people.
Steve Kerr's new New Yorker interview sounds a lot less like a man eager to lecture Americans and a lot more like a man trying to clean up a mess he's spent years making.
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Dan Zaksheske OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
At Yale, where Garber began her career, Jacques Derrida was a frequent visitor, and Paul de Man might be found down the corridor solemnly lecturing on Nietzsche.