as in to mouth (off)
to talk as if giving an important and formal speech an arrogant scholar who never passes up an opportunity to posture and perorate on stunningly unimportant matters

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Recent Examples of perorate As a black spiritual hums on the soundtrack, Hooded Justice perorates about the legacy of being the victim—not the complicit or recruited perpetrator—of violence: My mama played the piano right over there. Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
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  • Georgia coach Kirby Smart and Texas coach Steve Sarkisian spoke earlier that day in Atlanta’s College Football Hall of Fame about their recruiting philosophies in the age of player revenue sharing and schools allocating a big chunk of that $20.5 million to football.
    Marc Weiszer, The Tennessean, 22 July 2025
  • That’s according to more than half a dozen tech industry insiders CNN spoke with over the past month, who are mixed on just how much and how fast AI will upend the job market.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
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  • The cycle can become so accidentally ubiquitous that the former kids who blissfully existed outside of whatever discourses these trends or bands started in their heyday wonder now, as adults, what was so bad about them in the first place.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2025
  • Admissions officers want to see that students will contribute meaningfully to discourse on campus.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
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  • On the other hand, Powell’s assertions have not sat well with Trump, who has continued to harangue him to lower interest rates.
    Rob Wile, NBC news, 3 July 2025
  • Coaches, who represent their schools, are strongly encouraged to work with officials rather than harangue them.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 21 May 2025

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“Perorate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perorate. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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