filibusters

present tense third-person singular of filibuster

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Verb
  • Basically, the company procrastinates, to the temporary benefit of the speed-obsessives among us.
    Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Today’s successful downtowns rely on a mix of ingredients, said Steven Falk, the former city manager of Lafayette, who’s served as an interim city executive in Oakland and Richmond and who lectures at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • Bad teams are given mechanisms to recover, not lectures about bootstraps.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2026
Verb
  • Not stalls the standard 12-by-12 feet of other ranches but 14 feet square to give horses more room to move around naturally.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • This process stalls improvements for years.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The role required fluency in at least three languages—and Blunt, by her own admission, just about speaks Spanish.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR's Ukraine Correspondent Joanna Kakissis about the overnight attack in Kyiv, which comes on the heels of Ukraine's drone assaults in Moscow.
    NPR, NPR, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • The deal also delays the elimination of dental help for undocumented adults a year later than Newsom proposed.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2026
  • Extending careers delays workforce loss but does not address long-term demographic trends or the inevitability of workforce transition.
    SK Gupta, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • Woody Harrelson declaims every line, upping the relentless factor of Phil’s mania.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • But Koreeda dawdles over all that without ever finding much dramatic nuance, making for a dullish midsection.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • But while the new movie dawdles on its way to Toxie’s origins, then rushes toward a finale with a lurching rhythm that verges on calculated ineptitude, its spirit never feels inauthentic.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, the guy talks to dead barkeeps and wields an ax more than his typewriter.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Albert Saijo, second semester editor of Echoes, Heart Mountain high school publication, talks things over with Hisako Takehara and Alice Tanouye, first semester co-editors.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
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