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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commentate.

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Examples

  • She commentates on and analyses each game as it happens.

    Game 10: Kramnik wins at last 2008

  • Asked if his famous and often testy rivalry with Mr. McEnroe who commentates for various U.S. networks and the BBC will be renewed over the microphone, he simply says: "John and I won't be doing any commentary together."

    Champion's Points Anuj Gangahar 2010

  • Catch phrase for the poster: "Always something new is being born, a thousand flowers; ten thousand Buchenwalds." and so forth (Now, true, sober heads prevail in the Hague, cynicism is nihilism with a human face and the far side of reason, although some commentates give Cosmonaut here.)

    Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek) 2010

  • It's not like The Daily Show and Jon Stewart, who at least IMO is clearly gunning for humor and not on a news network, although he commentates on political issues.

    A cheap shot from Keith Olbermann 2009

  • Chinese Airport: An American reporter commentates to a camera saying, Years after the peace treaty signing between America and Russia by ex-President CHARLES LOGAN, President KAREN BUCHANAN is landing in China with her husband BILL Buchanan to imitate such a treaty with the Chinese government.

    Wanted: A Plot for 24 Season Seven | the TV addict 2007

  • Apart from his persistent errors Foster is commercially involved in many of the races on which he commentates.

    Archive 2008-04-13 2008

  • Apart from his persistent errors Foster is commercially involved in many of the races on which he commentates.

    London Marathon: Huge Day For Tomas Abyu and UKA 2008

  • I've often said how brilliantly she commentates on many subjects, its simply that I disagree with most of what she has to say about the Middle East, Zionism and her support of the discredited neo-con Administration presently in the White House.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • I've often said how brilliantly she commentates on many subjects, its simply that I disagree with most of what she has to say about the Middle East, Zionism and her support of the discredited neo-con Administration presently in the White House.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Sid Waddell a man who wrote 'Sloggers' and 'Jossy's Giants' and commentates on the darts - and I remember saying once 'It slithered and slid like a sidewinder with a hernia!'

    Archive 2006-01-01 Kerron Cross 2006

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