commentates

Definition of commentatesnext
present tense third-person singular of commentate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for commentates
Verb
  • Pretending to be the smart person who annotates their books can lead to becoming that person.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The older son, Dustin, barely speaks, and baby James is wearing a grocery bag for a diaper.
    Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • That speaks to the state of fuel-cell infrastructure in the country.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Which explains everything and nothing.
    Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
  • One explains why inflation exists, while the other tells you what to do when your rent goes up.
    Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The phrase also sometimes is used as a battle cry and has been employed by those with a nefarious agenda to instill fear of anyone who utters it and to raise concerns about Islam itself, according to Muslim scholars and civil rights advocates.
    Michelle Krupa, CNN Money, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Falduto utters the words as his character Billy to Dewey, playing the opinionated student who becomes the stylist for the band.
    Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Digital and tech journalist Taylor Lorenz expounds upon the influence of the digital space called social media in her book, Extremely Online.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • On this week’s episode of Good One, Gethard — whose latest special, A Father and the Sun, debuted this past September — expounds on these ideas by outlining what pursuing a creative career used to look like, where things went wrong, and where artists must go from here.
    Chris Gethard, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • However, your brain only interprets it through information collected by cells in your eye’s retinas called cones.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of depending on symmetry, the robot continuously interprets signals from the remaining sensor and adjusts its movement accordingly.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Residents living outside of those eight Southeast Michigan counties will also see fuel savings, Whitmer says, because those counties are already allowed to sell cheaper fuel blends without a waiver.
    Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The goal, says co-founder Zach Lentsch, is to get those scorecards in the hands of every single resident hunter in the state.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The rapidity and the terseness of the onscreen action leaps from scene to scene, from event to event, from one salient point to the next, with nothing incidental in between, nothing revealing anything besides what directly elucidates the story as Polanski chooses to tell it.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
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“Commentates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commentates. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.

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