Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Opinion; notion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Opinion.
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- verb Present participle of
opine .
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Examples
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It would be oh-so much easier to tell where the opining is being done, versus the rehash of previous comments.
Waldo Jaquith - You’re never anonymous on the internet. 2007
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It was an operatic tale: a man who made his name opining on the lost innocence of high school, the horror of childhood abuse and the redeeming love of a good family had destroyed his career because of a tawdry encounter in a downtown hotel with a 17-year-old high-school student.
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It was hard not to warm to a band who called their best of So Much For The Ten Year Plan and promoted it by telling stories of their label opining that they were too ugly to ever break through.
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It was hard not to warm to a band who called their best of So Much For The Ten Year Plan and promoted it by telling stories of their label opining that they were too ugly to ever break through.
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It was hard not to warm to a band who called their best of So Much For The Ten Year Plan and promoted it by telling stories of their label opining that they were too ugly to ever break through.
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Journos also don’t want to be relegated to the role of being fact-collectors for the blogosphere, because the opining is way more fun.
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Nor do you SEE anyone to the left of the people you name opining on it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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Nor do you SEE anyone to the left of the people you name opining on it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful. Trust No-One. Shut Up. 2010
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And I recall opining last spring that whether or not Obama restores the Constitution is the real test.
Obama and Congress Must Act to Restore the Constitution 2009
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“The only policies that I can recall opining on here have been archiving of data and methods.”
Environmental Science & Technology Article « Climate Audit 2005
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