expostulation
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Pacific time on Fox’s over-the-air network, a variety of expostulations were registered as loudly for this arrangement as they once were for the Video Assistant Referee system.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2019
Ms Richardson, sitting snug against her sister, accompanies her with hyperactive head rolls, hand gestures and expostulations of “mm-hmm” and “That’s right!”
From Economist • May 10, 2018
In 2012, the Senate Commerce Committee, headed by John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, held a hearing on the subject, featuring expostulations from politicians and testimony from witnesses.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2015
At such times, I lean my head back and let my jaw hang slack, which encourages expostulations like “ha-ha” and “ho ho.”
From The New Yorker • Jan. 5, 2015
At dinner, an old man burst out yelling in his tongue; the object of these expostulations being one of Bono’s friends, Charles.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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