pontificate
noun
the office or term of office of a pontiff.
pontificated
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past participleof pontificate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pontificate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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In 2009, Christine Smallwood wrote an article for The Baffler in which she pontificated as to what the internet would look like, if it were made physical.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
On Monday’s episode of The View, co-host Whoopi Goldberg pontificated on the matter for an entire segment, reading from Van der Velden’s apology before going in for the takedown.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
I listened where before I might only have pontificated.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
Some recalled tales from the Cannes Film Festival; others debated the merits of different artificial intelligence platforms and pontificated on the future of “wearable AI.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
He pontificated and vaticinated from his retreat in the rue Saint-Sulpice, haranguing the reader with an apocalyptic language partaking in spots of the bitterness of an Isaiah.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
