opine
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He said her Houston treatment center is a premier facility, and “for California to opine that it’s not good enough for us” is a strange concept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
“If a Fed chairman is going to opine on financial markets, they should take a conservative approach,” Harris said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
He says he told the chatbot, “I wasn’t trying to have you opine about my divorce at every chance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
He said, however, that as a military industrial base analyst, it wasn’t his place to opine on whether this sort of intense military investment should be the budget priority of the American government.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
"I opine, Bill," he said, "that you don't set yourself up as a heap better than the rest of this gang?"
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish
When life gets you down, Danny Palumbo opines, nothing is more soothing than eating a meal prepared with love.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Interest rate increases are one of Wall Street’s concerns, and those seem to be on the table, potentially as soon as this fall, opines Capital Economics’ Chief North America Economist Stephen Brown.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
A note from one of the investment bank’s analysts opines that Macquarie is entering a strong growth phase where “market conditions, industry dynamics and internal transition converge.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
This plays into the hands of small-cap and midcap stocks, Hartnett opines.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 23, 2026
My friend, Colonel Bramleigh, opines that a French cook always means nine-o'clock dinner.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The biggest one, Salim opined, is the cost of what can happen when you let yourself be run or dictated by ego or by pride.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
“His many detractors should grant that his comments late Saturday at a White House press briefing hit the right notes of gratitude and comity,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board opined.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2026
He also opined that the Strategy cost price is not as important as people think.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
“An awful spectacle,” opined The New York Times, a “sacrifice to the whims and theories” of a “coterie of cranks and politicians.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Zuckerberg's manifesto is the latest example of a tech boss opining on why AI is the next big thing.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
In nine years as Richmond Fed president he has built a practice of describing what he is learning from businesses, colleges, and community groups across his district rather than opining on where rates should go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Analysts are opining about the impact on global trade, which influences corporate earnings, but it’s too early to draw significant conclusions.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
They mostly speak anonymously, in case he actually regains power, but they speak nonetheless, ignoring norms against opining about another country’s election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
She admitted them to the front parlour, and opining that her mistress was somewhere's about the premises, departed in search of her.
From Hocken and Hunken by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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