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- verb Present participle of
pontificate .
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Examples
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I always feel more performing and less pontificating is good.
Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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I always feel more performing and less pontificating is good.
Upcoming Events Hal Duncan 2010
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All this does is add one more piece to the ever-growing pile of evidence that all the pontificating from the Republicans about the importance of taking personal responsibility is a complete crock most of the time.
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I don't think he plans to "negotiate," but talking face-to-face in an attempt to change the present course is still better than pontificating from a distance and accomplishing nothing.
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The alternative is to sit on the sidelines, safely pontificating from the berth of a well-upholstered desk in Faringdon Road or Wapping, and never troubling to get your hands dirty.
What is Simon Jenkins for? Stephen Tall 2007
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The alternative is to sit on the sidelines, safely pontificating from the berth of a well-upholstered desk in Faringdon Road or Wapping, and never troubling to get your hands dirty.
Archive 2007-05-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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Hence the apparent pontificating from the B.C. and Ontario human rights bodies on the Maclean’s case.
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With everyone from the late evangelist Jerry Falwell to writer Susan Sontag pontificating on the meaning of the event, 9/11 "became political capital for people across the spectrum, splitting the collective memory," Linenthal says.
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This extends to believing that anyone who disagrees with their pontificating is a morally inferior liberal.
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Speeches in this context carries with it too much of the idea of pontificating, which Mr. Sullivan did not want.
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"Today, gray sheets of rain battered at the walls and roof, and Bud Dearborn was pontificating to five of his cronies over on the smoking side."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
May 19, 2011