opining
present participle ofopine
opine
verb[T]
formaluk/əʊˈpaɪn/us/oʊˈpaɪn/toexpressanopinion:
[+ speech]Powergrowsfrom thebarrelof agun, opined Mao.
[+ that]Ernest Rutherford opinedthathisworkonradioactivesubstanceswould be of little or nopracticaluse.
to say something
- sayWhen I say your name, raise your hand.
- utterShe barely uttered a word all morning.
- they sayThey say the house is haunted.
- it is saidIt is said that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
- stateUnion members stated that they were unhappy with the proposal.
- remarkHe remarked that she was looking thin.
Expressing and asking opinions
- amirite
- apothegm
- couch
- day
- editorialize
- express
- far
- propound
- run
- runsomethingbysomeone
- screed
- should've
- soapbox
- sound
- sound off
- talk
- vociferous
- vociferously
- would
- wouldn't
Examplesofopining
opining
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
What is that member of the governing body supposed to be doing oropining?
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There was an effort to boost recruiting byopiningthat there would be a requirement for trained pilots for manned aircraft for many years to come.
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He also compared it unfavorably with the 1974 original, calling it less juicy andopiningthat the special effects are not an improvement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Tonelli disagreed,opiningthat he was always much more than that.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The eventual record proved dissatisfactory, with himopiningthat some of it sounded a bit jumbled.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, generating profits remained difficult, with an analystopiningthat they needed better user profiling so the sites could generate the results expected by advertisers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some jurisdictions extend the audit requirements to includeopiningon such tax issues as transfer pricing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So there exists a difference in optimism about science, with one viewopiningthat science will gradually extend to everything, and the opposite view opining that won't happen.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He concludes byopiningthat although this episode is set in a world completely different from our own this episode has greater verisimilitude than those previous.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some of the interviewers also claim that they can derive energy from what they call a zero-point field, whileopiningthat the technology has been suppressed by various groups.
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- valueless
- value orientation
- value pricing
- value-pricing
- value proposition
- value-proposition
- valuer
- values
- value share
- value-share
- value stock
- value-stock
- value system
- value-system
- valuing
- valvate
- valve
- valve assembly
- valve cover
- valve disease
- valve-disease
- valve gear
- valve-gear
- valve-preserving aortic root repair
- valve-preserving-aortic-root-repair