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orate

[aw-rayt, oh-rayt, awr-ayt, ohr-ayt] / ɔˈreɪt, oʊˈreɪt, ˈɔr eɪt, ˈoʊr eɪt /


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Politicians orate, American flags proliferate and, even more than usual, many windows on the world are tinted red, white and blue.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2023

Neville told Rosner that there were three lines of dialogue that he wanted Bourdain’s voice to orate, but he couldn’t find previous audio to string together or make it work otherwise.

From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2021

The surest way to get yanked off the stage — any stage — is to clear one’s throat and begin to orate.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021

The new leader of Britain’s House of Commons, known for his orate rhetoric and affinity for tradition, has issued a painstaking list of grammar and etiquette for his staff.

From Fox News ● Jul. 27, 2019

That’s one of the reasons a writer should mutter, mumble, or orate a draft of his prose to himself, ideally after enough time has elapsed that it is no longer familiar.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Daniel Webster orates, in public and at home.

From Time Magazine Archive

From a base, sculpture orates; from the floor, it talks.

From Time Magazine Archive

He rarely raises his voice; he never orates; he always drops his gs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the loudest opponents of this idea is Senator Everett Dirksen, who orates that such disclosures would make a lawmaker a "second-class citizen."

From Time Magazine Archive

And he orates random thoughts of profundity with such authority that you want to write them down and hang them on the wall, but they only allow writing instruments in the rec room.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

It featured a version of the Gettysburg address as orated by the president at the time, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

That the speeches in “Undelivered” were never orated does take some of the helium out of their balloons, but in Nussbaum’s able hands, this cruise through what-might-have-been offers a hell of a fun ride.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

While working as a lawyer, he found himself unable to deliver orated arguments as eloquently as he could write them.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022

"Just remember that self-love is a journey. It doesn’t happen miraculously one day," she orated.

From Fox News ● Aug. 18, 2021

“There he is,” Aarfy orated funereally, pointing down dramatically at a hay wagon and two horses standing before the bam of a gray stone farmhouse.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

A week and a half after Tom recorded himself orating, he got a voice mail saying he was a winner.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2022

In our mind’s eye, we have a vision of an exhausting marathon in which a brave senator has the gumption to stand up and keep orating until his or her colleagues see the point.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2021

The image of success and power today is someone miked up and prowling around a stage or orating from behind a lectern.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2020

“He was a rousing, orating nationalist for the British Empire. But he believed the populace must be informed and educated to see through cheap rhetoric.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2017

Sometimes, says Senator Hoar, he seemed to think the war was to be settled by speech-making, and was impatient of its battles as an interruption—like a fire-engine rumbling past while he was orating.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam




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