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rhapsodize

[rap-suh-dahyz] / ˈræp səˌdaɪz /


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She knew how to poke fun at pious men in frilly dickeys, and rhapsodize on the pleasures found in everyday life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

The videos, which now number more than 260, have become appointment viewing for movie lovers, who relish watching their favorite artists rhapsodize about cinema in unrehearsed, genuine ways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025

Romantic partners gush about love at first sight; parents rhapsodize about meeting their babies for the first time.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

West's faithful are more likely to rhapsodize about the way 2004's "The College Dropout" changed the pattern of their brainwaves.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2022

Madoc is patiently listening to her rhapsodize over the perfection of their garments.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

Visiting international fans have rhapsodized about our hospitality and gushed over culinary miracles like ranch dressing and Philly cheesesteak while trekking to Costco like it is our version of the pyramids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Back in 2005, when Roberts rhapsodized about Indiana farmland and an endless horizon punctuated only by silos and barns, he was substituting a humble, real-life Midwest upbringing for his own.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

Though her character in “Fleabag” famously rhapsodized the postmenopausal life, for female actors, she says, the reality can be a bit less glorious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

A few recent college graduates were on hand and rhapsodized about growing up here.

From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2022

Patriotism rhapsodized on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature.

From Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

So a year or so back, when she began to notice influencers rhapsodizing about planning a “’90s summer” for their own children, she took notice.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Kristofferson never sounded more like Leonard Cohen than he did here, rhapsodizing in a parched croon about a woman’s redeeming devotion as producer Fred Foster ladles on just the right amount of easy-listening schmaltz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I once wrote a column rhapsodizing how foraging at the local warehouse store satisfied some primitive masculine need to hunt and gather.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2022

The pandemic has turned us all into armchair immunologists, rhapsodizing about T cells and antibodies with the ardor once reserved for — well, anything else.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2022

Of course Hinpoha had been sworn to secrecy regarding it, but that did not keep her from rhapsodizing about it on general principles and pitching the girls' curiosity still higher.

From The Camp Fire Girls at School Or, The Wohelo Weavers by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey


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