bloviate
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Actors jockey, directors bloviate, writers fume at liberties taken.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
They are glib, charming, insulting, cranky, funny, learned, loud, insightful — we’re talking TV hosts here, who chat, judge, entertain, bloviate and moderate their way through popular day and nighttime shows with ease.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 7, 2017
Example: It’s tough to watch them bloviate about sweeping change when our internal processes are still such a mess.
From Time ● Jul. 27, 2015
When we bloviate or scold, it also undercuts what little authority we have.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2013
Now we have to sit around all summer and listen to LeBron James bloviate about the inevitability of his wonderfulness.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2012
While Trump bloviated about tariffs, the Hispanic Republican Club chair nibbled on dessert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
"I wear with pride his drunken, bloviated scorn. Please don’t cry," the lawmaker joked, referencing Boehner's reputation for appearing publicly emotional at various points throughout his career.
From Fox News ● Apr. 12, 2021
What, besides the bloviated tweets that will accompany even the most modest ratings victory?
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2017
“The majority of men do it, and all would be mortified if others heard their bloviated stories.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2016
The notion of a younger generation calling out hypocrisy by actually taking the actions an older generation only bloviated about holds some appeal, but the play is more interested in validating several wearying middle-age fantasies.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016
Once a correspondent on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” he landed his own Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report,” where he played a bloviating, misinformed character, also named Stephen Colbert.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
“Hamnet,” by contrast, is to feeling what Polonius, the famously bloviating cliché-monger in “Hamlet,” is to wisdom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024
So, Wednesday was just another day of well-practiced bloviating.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2024
His passion when bloviating was furious and terrible to look upon; but there was nothing to it more than sound and pretense.
From The Vigilance Committee of 1856 by James O'Meara
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