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How to pronounce commentary in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms comment
Type of statement
Has types annotation, midrash, notation, note
Derivation comment, commentate

Examples of commentary

commentary
How many times will Brett Favre be mentioned in live commentary during the game?
From the freep.com
Now she runs one of the country's most influential websites for news commentary.
From the sfgate.com
Bye-bye miles, hello erudite weekly political and financial news and commentary.
From the ocregister.com
Trading this week is expected to reflect commentary on the European debt crisis.
From the nzherald.co.nz
In Hong Kong, a well-known wedding designer gave Chinese-language TV commentary.
From the stltoday.com
What I do is I provide commentary and information based on what's happening now.
From the timesunion.com
It contains commentary from John Motson on some of the players in the World Cup.
From the leighjournal.co.uk
I'm actually pretty apolitical, but the commentary around here has sucked me in.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
It was religious pageantry, heavy symbolism, political commentary and slapstick.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • Comment: a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"
  • Commentary is a monthly American magazine on politics, Judaism, social and cultural issues. It was founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945. ...
  • In philology, a commentary is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying volume. ...
  • A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work; A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
  • (Commentaries) Services and Programs Supporting Young Children's Language Development: Comments on Girolametto, and Thiemann and Warren
  • A V.O. objective opinion or description of characters or events either occurring in the film or to fill in information without wasting a great deal of film time.
  • A supporting document which outlines the development history of a controlled document and/or contains proprietary or other information intended for use only by Transpower.
  • Any analysis or plain English version of a legal issue, case or legislation eg. journal articles, textbooks
  • Script used to describe clothes for a fashion show