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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pontificate.

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Examples

  • I've always pontificated loudly that I hate passive heroes, those who sit/stand back and let things happen to them.

    Don't Take This Lying Down Ulysses 2010

  • I've always pontificated loudly that I hate passive heroes, those who sit/stand back and let things happen to them.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Ulysses 2010

  • She also forgot that her boss, President Assad himself, pontificated just weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal to the West and his fellow Arab rulers, that the Syrian people genuinely love him due to his anti-Israel and anti-U.S. policies.

    Dr. Josef Olmert: Reporting Syria: 1984 and Tass All Over Again Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

  • We know that because he refused to rule out a lobbying job even as he pontificated about education, charity, or private enterprise.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

  • She also forgot that her boss, President Assad himself, pontificated just weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal to the West and his fellow Arab rulers, that the Syrian people genuinely love him due to his anti-Israel and anti-U.S. policies.

    Dr. Josef Olmert: Reporting Syria: 1984 and Tass All Over Again Dr. Josef Olmert 2011

  • Since the dawn of humankind, love has been studied, pondered, pontificated and written about by scholars and sages of antiquity.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Every unearthable fact of his life was pulled out, torn apart, and pontificated upon by as many half-cocked pundits as had opinions to peddle.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • Like many “normal” people, he pontificated about these phenomena without once debating them removed from passion and ideology.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • Like many “normal” people, he pontificated about these phenomena without once debating them removed from passion and ideology.

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • We know that because he refused to rule out a lobbying job even as he pontificated about education, charity, or private enterprise.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: Weiner vs. Bayh: Which One's A Bigger Scandal? RJ 2011

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