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speechify

[spee-chuh-fahy] / ˈspi tʃəˌfaɪ /


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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

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

Well, you have held Conventions, you have speechified and resolved, protested and appealed, declared and petitioned, and now, what next?

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

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

Beside him, Jules sipped her drink and rolled her eyes at his speechifying.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee


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