comment about (someone or something)

To speak about a particular person or topic. The young starlet refused to comment about the rumors surrounding her latest movie. The doctor refused to comment about his patient during the interview. You know I can't comment about pending litigation.

comment about someone or something

and comment (up)on someone or something

to make a remark about someone or something. There is no need to comment upon this event. Please don't comment on Liz's problems.

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I have a final comment about another dimension of difference between the examples, one with rather interesting philosophical implications.

Ages and stages: what do you see? Adolescents and college students. (Pedagogy Saturday VI)

It is in relation to a comment about Piero that Michelangelo seems to have misread Condivi's text while discussing it with Calcagni.

"Che ultima mano!": Tiberio Calcagni's marginal annotations to Condivi's 'Life of Michelangelo.' (author Ascanio Condivi)

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