commentates

present tense third-person singular of commentate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for commentates
Verb
  • Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) speaks at the opening of the IAA Mobility international motor show.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Davis said that the center has been around for 50 years speaks to its effectiveness in helping people achieve their goals.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • From there, the snowball of negative plays picked up steam, which explains why the Dolphins finished the game with 211 yards.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • At each camp, the team leaves behind a small but powerful item, a red card that explains what to do during encounters with immigration officials.
    David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The season 2 finale centered around a tornado destroying the store, when Brett utters his only line of dialogue in the series as the storm approaches.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • To use the Breathalyzer app by Outreach Smartphone Monitoring or by House Arrest App, the user utters a pass phrase and then blows into the Breathalyzer while the app captures and transmits a short video along with the user’s GPS location to a corrections officer.
    Robert S. Gable, IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2017
Verb
  • Their body clearly interprets your presence as an unmistakable signal of safety and security.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Each smartlet interprets signals with logic programmed on its microchip.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Michôd says that Sweeney was initially tentative about Martin's involvement, wanting to protect her own creative space, but opened up upon realizing that Martin wasn't going to try and control her performance.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Kentucky’s constitution specifically allows suspects to be held without bail for a crime where the death penalty is on the table, but Stines’ defense team says the state is still required to prove at a hearing that there is enough evidence to presume Stines is guilty in order to keep him locked up.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The rapidity and the terseness of the onscreen action leaps from scene to scene, from event to event, from one salient point to the next, with nothing incidental in between, nothing revealing anything besides what directly elucidates the story as Polanski chooses to tell it.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Avrich talks to Deadline in regards to how this went down.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • First up this week, Joelle Renstrom talks with Drew about being a teacher in 2025 and her recent essay for the site about Cliffs Notes.
    The Lit Hub Podcast, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The percentage tells the public how much of the fire perimeter is believed to not go beyond the control lines.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The movie tells the true story of Joe Scaravella, played by actor-producer Vince Vaughn, his restaurant Enoteca Maria and its staff of nonnas.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Commentates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commentates. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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