FILIBUSTERS Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

filibusters

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present tense third-person singular of filibuster

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Basically, the company procrastinates, to the temporary benefit of the speed-obsessives among us.

— Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 10 Jan. 2026

Definition of procrastinates

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Where the rest of the writing team really came in, during the uncharacteristically 30-minute long segment, was working on a last minute bit in the back half where Kimmel speaks to an FCC commissioner played by Oscar winner Robert De Niro.

— Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2026
Visitors are invited to stop, look and choose the one that speaks most directly to them.

— Sophia Buonpane, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of speaks

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Nearly all report that the process contributes to burnout and delays care.

— Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Cellphone use before bed delays the natural drop in cortisol that teenagers need to fall asleep, according to Alice Hoagland, PhD, director of the Insomnia Clinic at the Rochester Regional Sleep Disorder Center.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of delays

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But Koreeda dawdles over all that without ever finding much dramatic nuance, making for a dullish midsection.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
But while the new movie dawdles on its way to Toxie’s origins, then rushes toward a finale with a lurching rhythm that verges on calculated ineptitude, its spirit never feels inauthentic.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025

Definition of dawdles

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Prize Director Michael Kelleher talks with 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction recipient Kei Miller about Yuval Noah Harari’s sprawling and sometimes controversial book Sapiens and about how humanity is fiction (and vice-versa).

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
In this encore episode for our Tech Camp series, host Regina Barber talks to Carl Zimmer, a science reporter at The New York Times, about his reporting on mirror cells — and why creating them could lead to devastating consequences for life on Earth.

— Berly McCoy, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026

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