opines

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  1. transitive verb To state as an opinion.
  2. intransitive verb To express an opinion: opined on the defendant's testimony.

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  • They achieve no more, however, than to belittle those who penned them; for, even as they are true, the marvel is that the admirable matter in these truths appears to have escaped those authors What else Gregorovius opines--that Cesare was no Messiah of United Italy --is true enough. —  The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • As Mozilla's John Lilly opines, the iPhone Kindle application is "useful, if I'm somewhere and forgot my Kindle ... and I'm sure that I'll buy books with it to read a snippet, then really read on my Kindle." —  Top Stories - Google News
  • He opines, apparently sensibly, that one of he steps necessary to make progress is for the mindset of government must change. —  EU Referendum
  • Site Administrator ReadWriteWeb ran the full text of Obama's inaugural address through the tag cloud generator opines: —  The Moderate Voice
  • Megan McArdle opines (correctly in my view) no major player is going to try to stop the Fed because noone wants responsibility for the problem. —  ParaPundit
 

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