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speechify

[spee-chuh-fahy] / ˈspi tʃəˌfaɪ /


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While political theater, as a genre, has a tendency to speechify about sociopolitical issues from the safety of the stage, Rau at least gets up close to his subjects.

From New York Times May 15, 2023

That’s less the case in the equally unproductive covid-era, where the co-hosts, broadcasting from their homes, are now given minute-long soapboxes to speechify on the issue du jour.

From Washington Post Aug. 6, 2021

Like all serious candidates, Cruz had come to Des Moines to speechify and work the crowd in hopes of eventually getting to the White House.

From New York Times Oct. 1, 2015

Who outside of Aaron Sorkin’s world stops in the middle of their office full of people who work for a union to speechify about the importance of unions?

From Time Sep. 27, 2012

We soon learned that meant he was about to speechify us.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon

The White House hopefuls speechified, shook hands, hugged, smiled for selfies and signaled to neglected California Democrats — simply by being here — that they and their home state matter very much.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2019

In 2006, they steered McCain to attend a dinner with the oligarch at a chalet near Davos, where Deripaska speechified for the 40 or so guests.

From Slate Apr. 28, 2016

There was a time when lawmakers really meant it when they speechified about education being an investment in the nation’s future.

From Washington Times Mar. 15, 2016

But as the dignitaries speechified, biologists were discovering the creosote-bush-studded landscape was crawling with some uninvited guests: desert tortoises.

From Forbes Jun. 8, 2011

He speechified just in the way you used to say he did at Christ Church to all the ladies in rotation.

From The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 by A. M. W. Stirling

That’s actually not a lot of speechifying if you look at it proportionally.

From Salon May 28, 2026

His passion project arrives, chockablock with design and speechifying, but Jacob Elordi’s quiet presence pulls focus.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2025

After his Woodland Park appearance, plus a downtown parade and reception at Volunteer Park, his major speechifying ended at the UW.

From Seattle Times Jul. 13, 2023

In lieu of speechifying and ribbons, and with sponsors ranging from Google to Hulu, Ms. Davis’s team of researchers began producing receipts.

From New York Times May 25, 2023

The mayor grins wide, and there is a smattering of applause in reaction to his speechifying.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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