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 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
“If you’re going to opine on matters of theology, you’ve got to be careful. You’ve got to make sure it’s anchored in the truth,” he admonished the pontiff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
"I likewise opine you has a whole lot of fight in ye."
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.
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
Butchart opines that the rest of the world is – explicitly or implicitly – opposed to unchallenged U.S. financial hegemony.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2025
“In America, art is always paid for by somebody and griped about by somebody else,” Klaus opines late in the novel to Di.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025
As for the people of the United States, he opines that they know their own business.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
“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
“The surge in the ISM Manufacturing Index in January suggests that after years of malaise, perhaps the manufacturing sector might be turning a corner,” opined Alexandra Brown, North America economist at Capital Economics.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
In its fiscal 2025 annual report, filed in October, Regencell said “there is substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern,” and its outside auditor opined the same.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
“Schmeling might go four rounds,” opined Al Ulbrickson.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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But Brown’s spokeswoman confirmed to the Journal that the office wasn’t opining on Baltimore’s IG specifically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
Mr Altman then hit back in an interview with Bloomberg, opining that Mr Musk is not "a happy person" and saying his decisions are made from a "position of insecurity".
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
Most of the commentariat and mainstream media types are generalists with little content expertise or rigorous academic training in the topics and subjects they are opining about.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2024
The secret of his pessimist opining, Is—all his dramas are declined—with thanks!
From Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama by Various
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