alleviating

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“Hamnet,” by contrast, is to feeling what Polonius, the famously bloviating cliché-monger in “Hamlet,” is to wisdom.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

And it’s easy, as many quickly did, to write off this push to spruce up and fill up America’s most notorious prison-turned-national park as just bloviating or distraction.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2024

So, Wednesday was just another day of well-practiced bloviating.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2024

His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense.

From The Vigilance Committee of 1856 by O'Meara, James