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bloviated

verb

past tense of bloviate

as in harangued

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No president has publicly harangued and harassed the Fed more to lower interest rates.

— Steve Liesman, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
There are, unfortunately, far too many examples of women who marry high-profile figures only to be harangued for expressing anything other than gratitude and graciousness.

— Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026

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Lorraine, Google’s chief marketing officer, pontificated at conferences and in op-eds about building diverse, inclusive teams.

— Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
Cable news anchors pontificated on the possible environmental toll were the Al Salmi’s cargo of two million barrels of crude discharged into the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.

— Charlie Campbell, Time, 1 Apr. 2026

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Trump blustered and lied and displayed himself in the worst possible light, of course, but Reza Pahlavi, the Shah’s son who lives in the United States and who many Iranians had reluctantly come to regard as a possible leader, also played his hand extremely badly.

— Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 16 May 2026
Trump has blustered, contradicted himself publicly, ramped-up rhetorically and then backed down, mostly without receiving obvious concessions.

— Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026

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Some neighbors fulminated against the university, arguing that the extra events would bring more noise and traffic, and that the property tax-exempt institution would not pay its fair share.

— Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
Predictably, Khomeini fulminated about Carter’s visit.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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And through the spring and summer, that appeared to be the case, as coaches and players alike raved about their new coordinator, who earlier this year was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Some raved about the experience to those in line while others chattered among themselves about their thoughts.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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That underdog context feeds into the implicit soft power competition between the Toho Godzilla releases and the American franchise from Legendary, which has spouted a whole Monsterverse involving King Kong and an accompanying TV show.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026
That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026

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