monologue
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As Tao described their inner monologue: “It’s too hard—I’m not going to try.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
It’s during a monologue in the seventh episode that we learn what haunts Wyck most: the guilt of causing his childhood friend’s drowning, which has weighed on him ever since.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
With his monologue coming to a close, I perked up when he finally said, “I have a question for you. Would you be interested in taking ballroom dancing classes with me?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Years later, when “SNL” developed its opening monologue, it served a similar purpose.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Once he’d finished his monologue about his construction projects, he closed with an exuberant “I miss you so much! How arejyow?”
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
You can’t really blame them if their response to the self-absorbed internal monologues of an unreliable narrator is, Oh, boo hoo.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
On one weekend in Tokyo, hundreds of visitors flocked to a zine fair showcasing a wide range of handmade magazines in different sizes and formats -- some incorporating abstract designs, photography or personal monologues.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
In one of his first monologues, he pointed out his boss in the audience, then-network-head Les Moonves, manning a switch that could kill Colbert’s show in favor of reruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
For the next 12 years, Colbert’s topical, opening monologues riffed heavily off the news, and that included healthy doses of satire about Trump the candidate or President Trump.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Slowly, he was easing back into his monologues about Nigeria.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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