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perorate

verb as in harangue

verb as in summarize

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Weak match

verb as in deliver speech

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“I’ll just look into my soft drink and listen to someone else perorate about me,” Sting said.

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It perorates for a supernaturalist whose fashionable ignorance, touched with less durable vulgarity, blinded him to such visions as, in our time, the poet "A. E." has depicted.

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The venerable Earl of Hughenden came in as I was perorating.

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A third, perorated a long and beautifully written review, by the bold and startling announcement—"This writer is unquestionably a highly respectable youth."

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Mr. Tompkins marries their insights to those of Jews, Buddhists and Muslims, and he perorates with a survey of people who have encountered apparitions of dead animals.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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