bloviate

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to discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner (slang)
A form of this word ("bloviations") showed up in a Paul Krugman article today: "From inevitability to pitiful failure to front-runner again in just a few days. There’s no hint that the market saw either Iowa or New Hampshire coming, or knew anything beyond the bloviations of the talking heads." I can't remember ever having seen this word before, so I looked it up.

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"....bloviations of the talking heads." Kind of goes with their blah, blah, blahs, doesn't it? It's one of those words that sounds like what it means, to me.

I was thinking the same thing.

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