speechify
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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
If Mr. Jacquemus is going to make it off the backbenches to speechify on the floor, he needs to extend his range.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
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
Pöysti’s inquisitive gaze and faint smile tell us more about Ansa’s strong-willed persona than any speechified backstory could.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
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
Don't you now recall distinctly how we speechified till hoarse, Trying to convince the people what was just the proper course?
From Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller
That’s actually not a lot of speechifying if you look at it proportionally.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
Whatever the risks of his speechifying, you had to admire — here in our age of political infotainment — the natural finesse with which Springsteen threaded his prepared rhetoric into Tuesday’s set.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
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
She’s fine with Edgin acting as the squad’s leader, the guy whose main weapons are a lute and speechifying.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
When Mr. Frederick Douglass is speechifying he says that the second hardest step in making yourself free is the first one that you take.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
