as in to reflect
to make a statement of one's opinion she never misses a chance to editorialize on the issues of the day—even the ones she knows nothing about

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Recent Examples of editorialize Without editorializing, Wilson never lets the reader forget that all of this carnage has a morally dubious pretext. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024 The problem is that any top-down attempt to editorialize the music on these platforms is inescapably an act of marketing — a way to make the numbers rise, reaffirming an artist’s relevance and, by proxy, the platform’s necessity. Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 13 June 2024 The city fathers gave speeches on tolerance, newspapers editorialized in favor of emancipation, and Jews joined the great civic societies. John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 During that time, conventions of objectivity led newspapers to amplify Senator Joseph McCarthy’s accusations and smears, lest they be seen as editorializing. Jacob Weisberg, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019 See All Example Sentences for editorialize
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  • The implication was meant to reflect the perspective of writer Dominick Dunne (Nathan Lane), but he’s not introduced until later in the show, his presence serving to place wild theories on the brothers and their possible motivates in the pages of Vanity Fair.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Few centre-backs are as highly regarded in world football and naturally, the players will expect that status to be reflected in their salary package.
    James McNicholas, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
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  • At the University of Chicago, a spokesman for NORC, which is part of a consortium that last year received a $53 million, 10-year grant to better integrate the use of evidence and data into USAID programs, declined to comment on the status of its funding.
    Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
  • The California Department of Education declined to comment.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2025
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  • The comment followed a high-level meeting between American and Russian officials in Riyadh that excluded Ukraine, and remarks from Trump that placed blame on Ukraine for being invaded by Russia.
    Ahtra Elnashar, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2025
  • This comes amid President Donald Trump’s remarks that Canada should become a U.S. state — remarks many Canadians find deeply insulting — and as the Trump administration threatens tariffs on its neighbor to the north.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2025
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  • Mulberry noted that China is the source of over 70% of the household and generic non-food products that Great Value sells such as electronics, accessories, plastic food containers and sporting goods.
    Siddharth Cavale, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The International Energy Agency notes that cloud data centers (nearly essential for modern computing) gobble up a massive amount of energy, accounting for about 1% of the world's electricity consumption.
    Nilesh Suresh Jain, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Editorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/editorialize. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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