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orate

[aw-reyt, oh-reyt, awr-eyt, ohr-eyt] / ɔˈreɪt, oʊˈreɪt, ˈɔr eɪt, ˈoʊr eɪt /


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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

For the next half hour, Valentino Dixon will stand on the courthouse steps and orate for TV cameras, and I hear the same lines from his letters.

From Golf Digest Dec. 6, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

At 193 Bowery was Military Hall, where the Metropolitan Police were organized in the 1840s, the Elks convened in 1868 and Emma Goldman orated in the 1890s.

From New York Times Apr. 18, 2013

“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

“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

Hakawatis—storytellers—have historically been an integral part of Middle Eastern culture, orating popular myths and fables to audiences in cafés and public squares.

From Economist Jun. 28, 2017

Wore a silk hat and a Prince Albert coat all the time, except when he was orating, and then he shed the coat to get freer action with his arms.

From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by George Horace Lorimer




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