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In songs that wrestle with connection and autonomy, her vocals declaim, sob and gasp; her lyrics blurt out dilemmas and demand responses that may not arrive.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

Brook loved to declaim that he had no answers, because there are no answers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

“The folding type of this cooling device became accepted in China during the Ming dynasty,” Mr. Trebek might declaim, as competitors raced to buzz in with the reply, “What is a fan?”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2020

You may use this page to declaim loudly, recite verse, or pursue areas of freewheeling, off topic discourse.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2020

He was also an accomplished actor, who loved to declaim Shakespeare aloud.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

“Dennis, you’re wearing the wrong costume,” he declaims proudly.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

“I’ve been painting up for 25 years,” the 50-year-old declaims, his voice building into a steady rumble.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2023

“I don’t need anyone,” Paolo declaims, in one of several lines destined to find their way to a midnight quote-along screening of the film.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021

Plus, the critic in me is hard-pressed to resist a movie in which a character declaims whole paragraphs of Pauline Kael without explanation.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2020

“Fellow Dominicans!” he declaims in a grainy voice.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

“We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials,” Emerson declaimed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

As Weaver's Prospero declaimed "Come forth, I say," Hayley sprang from her seat and rushed the stage with Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer from Tyneside.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

“Oh Allah make it easy for them to reach there, and bless us with the death of a martyr,” he declaimed, his voice reverberating through the mosque’s loudspeakers.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Sometimes the interview recordings are played straight, or woven into cacophonous layers; other times, the words are declaimed verbatim by the performers, in Russian and English.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Isaac declaimed a prayer of his own devising.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

But Mr. Sorkin has never been mature and nuanced before, and he’s not about to start; self-righteous declaiming is what suits him, now as ever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

We passed multiple radar speed signs, declaiming mph numbers, beseeching drivers to slow down.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2025

You might find Louis Malle at the bar, Robert Downey Sr. declaiming in the town’s plaza that plots were dead, Mr. Herzog and Barbet Schroeder playing table football.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman