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soliloquize

[suh-lil-uh-kwahyz] / səˈlɪl əˌkwaɪz /




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But people do tend to soliloquize in Chekhov, if not as much as in Shakespeare.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011

Arrayed before us on Freudian couches, the Nixons and Maos soliloquize about their youthful days of personality formation.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2011

But did your alter egos get to soliloquize in song?

From New York Times ● May 6, 2010

By night they act out their old roles, philosophize, soliloquize, dramatize the day's rebuffs, fall asleep and dream.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whew—on a roll, off to the races, put on this earth solely to soliloquize to his ginormous clay-covered shoes.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

What he and the antihero Kallman have in common is that they’re both “throwbacks,” he soliloquizes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

At moments, he soliloquizes on topics such as beauty and metaphors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

“Sometimes more life lies hidden in the opening of a door than in a question,” Jakob soliloquizes as he wanders the Institute’s labyrinthine hallways.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2020

Shakespeer: A guy who soliloquizes at a urinal.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2015

Her creations are living people, not masks behind which the author soliloquizes or lectures.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

He shook his head as if I were lying or whining, then soliloquized about Carlson’s defense of traditional masculinity.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

Resorting to his accustomed modesty, Mr. Kitman, tongue planted firmly in cheek, also soliloquized on his bona fides as a constructive critic rather than a chronic kvetch.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Hundreds attended a 2018 retirement party held at Mitla’s banquet room, where customer after customer soliloquized Reyes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2020

And reality TV star Khloe Kardashian soliloquized aTwitter changes business of celebrity endorsementsbout the brand of jeans that accentuates the famous Kardashian derriere.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2011

Do you know how long it takes to sound out a word like soliloquized?

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

We even got the comedy of the dubiously banned-from-soccer ex-FIFA boss Sepp Blatter soliloquizing about the integrity of his former employer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Though Levin’s show is cut from the same cloth as Limbaugh’s—aging white dude soliloquizing for three hours about his interesting opinions—it is dyed in a different pattern.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2020

Turing makes a few soliloquizing cameos in “Machines Like Me,” functioning essentially as the novel’s conscience.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

To the adagio of Bohuslav Martinu’s Second Piano Quintet, and in colored and patterned costumes by Dries Van Noten, this showed both man and woman with independent lives and thoughts, soliloquizing as well as cooperating.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016

From this point on, the girls are soliloquizing — telling their secrets to the audience.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz




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