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  • No boys were allowed in it—although Ruby Gillis opined that their admission would make it more exciting—  (source)
  • "We have goldsmiths in Lannisport who do better work," he opined.†  (source)
  • "Pure laziness," opined a lieutenant behind Seivarden.†  (source)
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  • Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."†  (source)
    opined = expressed an opinion
  • Snow Began to Fall come dusk lovely tangos wind and flake silent wisps growing bold wicked relentless hinting winter's random temper breath taking dazzling lifting me to heights I'd never approached silver frosted morning white landscape reflecting purple painted sky but as Newton would opine what goes skyward must surely crash.†  (source)
    opine = to express one's opinion
  • Well, Stubble and Spooney and the rest indulged in most romantic conjectures regarding this female correspondent of Osborne's—opining that it was a Duchess in London who was in love with him—or that it was a General's daughter, who was engaged to somebody else, and madly attached to him—or that it was a Member of Parliament's lady, who proposed four horses and an elopement—or that it was some other victim of a passion delightfully exciting, romantic, and disgraceful to all parties, on none of which conjectures would Osborne throw the least light, leaving his young admirers and friends to invent and arrange their whole history.†  (source)
    opining = expressing an opinion
  • He wanders around the crowded room, tasting hors d'oeuvres, sipping wine, looking jovially bewildered, and occasionally Pari has to swoop in and steal him away from a group of mathematicians before he opines on 3-manifolds and Diophantine approximations.†  (source)
    opines = expresses an opinion
  • Suddenly, an ESPN commentator came on the television screen and opined, "Tim Tebow is probably the fifth or sixth best quarterback in the 2010 draft."†  (source)
    opined = expressed an opinion
  • It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.†  (source)
    opine = to express one's opinion
  • He carried to the selection looking around, criticizing, opining.†  (source)
    opining = expressing an opinion
  • "Could be a woine cellar," a man with a bushy mustache opines.†  (source)
    opines = expresses an opinion
  • It was a little too small for him, though Jordan had opined that if he never buttoned it, no one would notice.†  (source)
    opined = expressed an opinion
  • So much the better, some opine.†  (source)
    opine = to express one's opinion
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