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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
expatiate .
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Examples
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Counselor Barnett expatiates on the evils of that other word processing program:
Web/Tech 2010
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All that could have been a blind, as Mr. Pearce expatiates at length, but it is a bold step to be certain that appearances deceive us.
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But the stint ended on a sour note as the Russian partners sought more authority and a reduction in the number of expatiates, mostly former BP employees, who had generous pay packages.
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But the stint ended on a sour note as the Russian partners sought more authority and a reduction in the number of expatiates, mostly former BP employees, who had generous pay packages.
Bob Dudley is BP's new oil-spill point man on gulf's troubled shores 2010
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All that could have been a blind, as Mr. Pearce expatiates at length, but it is a bold step to be certain that appearances deceive us.
Stromata Blog: 2008
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But the stint ended on a sour note as the Russian partners sought more authority and a reduction in the number of expatiates, mostly former BP employees, who had generous pay packages.
Bob Dudley is BP's new oil-spill point man on gulf's troubled shores 2010
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All that could have been a blind, as Mr. Pearce expatiates at length, but it is a bold step to be certain that appearances deceive us.
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Limbaugh's show — where Dick Cheney frequently expatiates — has become the voice of the Republican establishment.
Poor Joe 2007
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But I don't think that any of these towns have many expatiates ....
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After Prof. Peterson expatiates on the attempts of the African-American family, outlawed under slavery, to assimilate itself to bourgeois and patriarchal norms, she hails the advent of "brave new families" that are "indifferent to traditional concepts of blood, nuclear structures, and lineage" and are "the result of resourceful and creative action."
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