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a long, usually serious spoken discourse that a character in a play delivers to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts
Hamlet's famous soliloquy
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Recent Examples of soliloquy
Even Izzard’s brief epilogue, charmingly dedicating the performance to a fellow thespian, crackles with more verve than the most famous of soliloquies.
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Karen D'souza, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
The static figures act like a metronome, marking time between the stanzas of his sharp-witted soliloquies and dialogues; the gestures and expressions function as stage directions.
—Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
Tellingly, Washington seems never to look directly at the audience during the play’s famous soliloquies, preferring to deliver them high into the air.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
Inspirational edits of the lesbian Traitors star’s podcast soliloquies have been taking over TikTok.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 1 Apr. 2025
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Karen D'souza, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
The static figures act like a metronome, marking time between the stanzas of his sharp-witted soliloquies and dialogues; the gestures and expressions function as stage directions.
—Art Spiegelman, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2025
Tellingly, Washington seems never to look directly at the audience during the play’s famous soliloquies, preferring to deliver them high into the air.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
Inspirational edits of the lesbian Traitors star’s podcast soliloquies have been taking over TikTok.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soliloquy
Noun
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Saturday afternoon will feature the main event, when the four former players will take the stage, unveil their Hall of Fame busts and give speeches.—
Saad Yousuf,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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The event historically has featured a major policy speech from the chair.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
30 July 2025
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The late-night host tore into Trump during his monologue on Tuesday.—
Daysia Tolentino,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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DeGeneres addressed the allegations during the opening monologue on the first episode of her 18th season.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
22 July 2025
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Epstein is listed as the vice president of SAM on the deed, and four years later, in 1992, SAM transferred the property to a trust where Epstein was the trustee, also registered at the same Columbus address.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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We, in collaboration with our partners, store and/or access information on a user's device, including but not limited to IP addresses, unique identifiers, and browsing data stored in cookies, in order to process personal data.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
22 July 2025
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At one such gathering last year, a young aspiring academic sat before a tipsy crowd and delivered a lecture on Robin Hood.—
Abigail Ingram,
National Review,
28 July 2025
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The new approach doesn’t just end the lectures, but also the pretense that soft power was ever really about people’s dignity or freedom rather than about access and control.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
27 July 2025
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Mozeliak has started to gauge the interest of a handful of contending teams, though the talks are described as preliminary.—
Katie Woo,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
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President Donald Trump expressed frustration Friday morning after the U.S. and Israel recalled negotiating teams in the region Thursday, blaming gridlocked talks on Hamas and suggesting Israel would ramp up its war efforts.—
Chris Boccia,
ABC News,
25 July 2025
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“Soliloquy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soliloquy. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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