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Synonyms
air, express, give, look, raise, sound, state, vent, ventilate, voice
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Hopkins also expounded on the tumultuous days before the Texans' 2017 game at Seattle. — Greg Rajan, Houston Chronicle, "DeAndre Hopkins sounds off on Colin Kaepernick, explains practice absence," 3 Sep. 2019 Others take the opportunity to expound on broader employee-compensation practices. — Russ Wiles, azcentral, "New corporate disclosure rule about CEO and worker pay adds fuel to rich-poor debate," 5 July 2019 Several papers in the 1990s including one coauthored by Sager, expounded and supported the idea of the mantle plume model for creating Shatsky Rise and Tamu Massif. — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, "This is now the world's largest volcano, geologists say," 15 July 2019 Karen Lynch, the president of Aetna and executive VP at CVS Health, expounded on the program in an interview with Fortune. — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, "How CVS Wants to Link Social Care With Health Care: Brainstorm Health," 24 July 2019 Even better were Gilberto’s original compositions, largely constructed from nonverbal hums and mumbles that seemed to be expounding the meaning of life. — Chris Richards, Washington Post, "João Gilberto sang lullabies to the future," 7 July 2019 This idea, called stratified stability, was expounded almost 50 years ago by Jacob Bronowski, the author of the BBC documentary series The Ascent of Man. — Quanta Magazine, "Seeing Time Through a Liquid Crystal Display," 13 Sep. 2016 The Bureau’s single director also has been a flashpoint, one on which Kavanaugh has expounded at some length. — NBC News, "Why this SCOTUS candidate could reverse a century of financial regulation," 2 July 2018 With respect to personal identity, the group’s reasoning closely follows that expounded by Diderot’s friend David Hume. — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, "‘Diderot’ Review: Wherever His Mind Led Him," 15 Feb. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'expound.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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