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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
That fall, an old friend reached out to my father through the underground communications network, dialling a number printed on a faded piece of plastic Dymo tape and speaking to him from a public phone booth.
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
Both of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters.
Ask workers and customers at the local coffee counter to name the city’s best athletes and former Major League Baseball pitcher Kyle Gibson and pitcher Drey Jamison, who is in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, are often recited.
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Michael Marot,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
On Shabbat, the Acheinu, a prayer for liberating those held in captivity, was recited from the bimah, an elevated platform where sermons are often delivered.
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.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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.
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Jared Yates Sexton,
The New Republic,
25 Mar. 2020
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.
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Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2026
After haranguing the receptionist, he was eventually granted a 15-minute audience with Fujita, who advised his teenage devotee to focus on future technologies like computers.
The van’s speakers played a high-volume mashup of construction sounds, Jordan Peterson lectures, Marine Corps drills, and mumbling voices.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Joanna Fabicon, who has lectured on contemporary children’s literature at UCLA, added that educators, librarians and publishers must all grapple with the allegations against Chávez and decide how to move forward.