pontificating, musing, expounding, blathered, ranting, speculating, remarking, bemoaning, discoursing, ruminating, postulating, bloviate, mentioning, asserting, discussing, suggesting, debating, carping, fulminating, lamenting, talking, blabber, prattle, castigating, intimating, positing, disagreeing, yammering, implying, nattering, rhapsodizing, deriding, theorizing, harping, editorializing, arguing, gabbing, pondering, griping, extolling, propounding, stating, dissing, critiquing, presume, lecturing, bleating, blabbing, elaborating, predicting, criticizing, gloating, ridiculing, spouting, inferring, reasoned, obsessing, bewailing, declaring, harrumphing, excoriate, prognosticating, bitching, grousing, cogitate, whining, dissecting, debunking, rehashing, explicating, espousing, pronouncing, insinuating, refuting, belaboring, conjecture, fretting, saying, parroting, lionizing, justifying, complaining, impugning, skewering, disobliging, surmise, cavilling, decrying, paraphrase, vaunt, mocking, concluding, harangue, adjudges, kvetching, bellyaching, lambaste, pillorying, conflating, crowing, lampooning, ex cathedra