noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gave...a running commentary
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She gave us a running commentary on what was happening in the street.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
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Which is to say, the political commentary is a form of writing.
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I intended this to be a letter, but I see that it has turned into a political commentary .
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There was thus a combination of personal case-history and more general political commentary .
running
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Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.
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Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary .
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It becomes a running commentary from navigator to driver.
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Attending is simply describing what the child is doing, rather like a running commentary on the activity.
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She kept up a running commentary as she chased him 50 yards across Lawrence Road before collapsing in a pool of blood.
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His running commentary was oft-repeated, I guess.
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This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
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Don't keep up a running commentary .
sad
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It is a sad commentary to note such parochial schools within our people.
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The experience of some Sunday morning services in competition with golf is a sad commentary on the bending of principle to person.
social
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One of my favorite forums for social commentary is Peanuts.
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One of the limitations of books of purely social commentary is that they are long on analysis and short on action.
■ NOUN
radio
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Jackknifed over the whisky bottle, Barry listened to the radio commentary in closing-time light.
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So why am I disturbed that Temple University decided last month to cancel a series of public radio commentaries by Abu-Jamal?
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Billy Bremner does Radio 5 and other radio commentaries .
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Now it would command television crews, gangs of itinerant Press men and jolly serious ball by ball radio commentary .
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One is to turn the sound down and tune into the radio commentary .
■ VERB
give
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He gives a commentary as he walks down.
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More than 15, 000 people in the Alamodome giving the usual long-range commentary: Ooooh.
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Teachers of reading will prefer games that give a running commentary .
provide
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Evening greyhounds with Ladbrokes telephone services provide live commentaries as well as results at selected tracks.
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For some Ajdabiyans the cases of Carnation Milk provided an amusing commentary on official inconsistency without having any practical consequences.
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Anna Adams provides written commentary in prose and verse, and Norman contributes nine watercolours.
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Once again the Preface provides a useful commentary by the author on his previous works and the reason for promoting the current one.
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This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
write
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Yet he continued to write critical commentaries for three years after the handover without apparent incident.
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He followed events closely in his native land, writing frequent commentaries for the press there.
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It is, after all, the focus of much research, writing and commentary about health and social services provision.
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When, however, Origen himself came to write a commentary on Matthew 19: 12 he strenuously opposed a literal exegesis.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
running commentary
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Attending is simply describing what the child is doing, rather like a running commentary on the activity.
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Don't keep up a running commentary.
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Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.
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His running commentary was oft-repeated, I guess.
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It becomes a running commentary from navigator to driver.
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Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary.
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This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Garfield does political commentary on National Public Radio.
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Joe Garagiola will provide the commentary tonight on Channel 7.
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Now let's go over to our London studio for commentary on the wrestling.
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Sarah was looking out the window and giving us a running commentary on what was happening in the street.
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Schuler will do the World Series commentary .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between commercials, they squeezed in the quick commentary and interviews many viewers had already heard elsewhere.
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I could hear the commentary saying he wasn't going to stop.
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Irving set up lots of avenues for employee commentary and recommendations on how the change was going.
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Kustow was talking, his deep voice providing a commentary on the proceedings.
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The changing and temporal character of all existing things is prominent in the commentary although it stands in opposition to Zeus.
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The latter understanding Is preferred in this commentary .
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There are 3 great sets of commentaries on Aristotle: the neo-Aristotelian, the neo-Platonic and the Byzantine.
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This structure of absence and intrusion corresponds to de Man's blend of quotation, paraphrase and commentary in Allegories of Reading.