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Recent Examples of commentate
Broadcasters Patrick Johnson and Mike Mullis could be heard commentating during the moment.
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Fox had announced that Brady would take over the color commentating role beginning one year after his retirement; this was before Olsen was promoted to the top role.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
However, a chance encounter with a sports broadcast producer set her on a decades-long career in commentating.
—Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
Unveiling his busy 2025 schedule, Diffey shared that his season will kick off with commentating on Supercross, followed by the Rolex 24 at Daytona in Florida.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Fox had announced that Brady would take over the color commentating role beginning one year after his retirement; this was before Olsen was promoted to the top role.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
However, a chance encounter with a sports broadcast producer set her on a decades-long career in commentating.
—Meg Linehan, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
Unveiling his busy 2025 schedule, Diffey shared that his season will kick off with commentating on Supercross, followed by the Rolex 24 at Daytona in Florida.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commentate
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But in the late 19th century, Finkelstein explained, women who'd worked as nurses during the Civil War, even though not part of the Union or Confederate armies, lobbied for and won the right to be buried at Arlington.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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Here, again, the English translation fails to capture the historical and cultural connotations of the Persian, Bahari explained.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The presenters spoke their mother tongue (Farsi and Hindi), which was detected and translated in real-time to English.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2025
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The governor then spoke with roughly two dozen of the protestors in a closed-door meeting in his office.—
Jessika Harkay,
Hartford Courant,
22 May 2025
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The emergence of multimodal LLMs, which can interpret speech, images, video and text, is opening up a new class of cross-functional, intelligent workflows.—
Umair Javed,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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And in February, the State Department removed a statement about not supporting Taiwan’s independence from its website—a deletion that China interpreted as provocative.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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Read: The last thing bees need right now After a major winter die-off, the USDA usually returns its verdict by late March or early April, Downey said.—
Joanna Thompson,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2025
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The witness allegedly overheard the friend say that Lanez didn’t shoot the three-time Grammy winner.—
Anna Chan,
Billboard,
20 May 2025
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Need to annotate, merge, or convert your document type?—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
16 May 2025
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MuleSoft says that because LLMs need access to the API specifications, they must be annotated with metadata that the LLMs can reason with.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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Witnesses said the customer complained about his order to a female employee working at the Checkers window and asked to talk to a manager several times, investigators wrote in the report.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
26 May 2025
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Patti LuPone stood in a midtown recording studio one spring afternoon, talking to Carrie Bradshaw.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The young men expound upon the value of faith and their desire to meet a partner.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
20 May 2025
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Trumka expounded on the firings in an interview Friday with CBS News.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
9 May 2025
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In 2024, a highly intoxicated passenger on an All Nippon Airways flight from Tokyo to Seattle reportedly bit a flight attendant in the arm an hour after takeoff, the Japanese airline told The Japan Times.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
27 May 2025
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However, Merced told Variety in May 2025 that production of the third installment will likely begin in 2026.—
Samantha Stutsman,
People.com,
26 May 2025
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“Commentate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commentate. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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