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running commentaries

running commentaries is the plural of running commentary.

Meaning of running commentary

Noun

running commentary (plural running commentaries)

  1. A continuous verbal, or written description of events as they happen.
    • It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless.[…]You stand by, Janet, and wake me up if they do any of that running commentary stuff.”1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court

Questions about running commentaries

What is running commentaries the plural of?
Running commentaries is the plural of running commentary.

Words near running commentaries in the dictionary

  1. running blocks
  2. running board
  3. running boards
  4. running by
  5. running circles around
  6. running commentaries
  7. running commentary
  8. running counter
  9. running coupling
  10. running couplings
  11. Running Creek

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Adapted from Wiktionary: running commentaries (page history and authors); running commentary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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