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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bloviates
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Woody Harrelson declaims every line, upping the relentless factor of Phil’s mania.
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Indeed, the Abbé pontificates on pretty much every topic known to man as the pair try in vain to tunnel their way to freedom.
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That’s especially true for one of its two main narrators, Verity, an aging franchise movie star who acts, thinks, and pontificates like an adolescent.
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And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
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One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
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Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off.
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Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts.
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On his best nights, when the velocity and command combine, Sasaki blows past batters with a triple-digit fastball and cutting off-speed pitches.
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And now, these Sixers are a team that can seemingly stand in the middle of the ring and trade blows with anyone in the Eastern Conference.
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“Bloviates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bloviates. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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