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discourse

[dis-kawrs, -kohrs, dis-kawrs, -kohrs, dis-kawrs, -kohrs] / ˈdɪs kɔrs, -koʊrs, dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs, dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs /




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With Parsons now adapting the Backrooms for a feature-length horror thriller, the strange fictive world is rapidly entering mainstream discourse.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

That is the way out of the discourse doom loop and into the solution.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

It is, of course, a natural limitation of the defense of the Great Books, as a genre, that the discourse fails to live up to the actual experience of reading any one of those books.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

Although there were people speaking frankly about the condition, they were not in the mainstream discourse at the time she wrote Strong Female Character.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Because he thinks Facebook is the lowest common denominator of social discourse.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

In this way, the parallels and connections between European and non-Western antiliberal discourses are neatly illustrated.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

"I've seen different discourses online where people are really upset that she's doing movies," the 23-year-old from Luton says.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2025

Or, instead, could former President Trump’s extended discourses demonstrate his genius — an ability, as he says, to “weave” disparate stories into a beautiful tapestry?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2024

“This campaign also shows the power that new media has in shaping discourses on governance.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2024

Bell was being argued in the Supreme Court in 1927, the rhetoric of genetics and eugenics penetrated social, political, and personal discourses in the United States.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

On Wednesday, Ono discoursed on group theory and theorems of Lagrange and Fermat as students watched him sketch, with a sure and rapid hand, the symbols of high-level math.

From Washington Post Mar. 27, 2020

Our guide, young but practiced in the art of distracting cold tourists, poured hot berry juice and discoursed on Arctic matters.

From The New Yorker Apr. 22, 2019

In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd.

From New York Times Oct. 16, 2018

According to the film historian Kevin Brownlow, the crew sometimes took the film out of the camera and continued to crank as Tree discoursed, so as not to waste precious feet of celluloid.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2015

The Indians discoursed and joked till midnight; and the French captain sent messengers at midnight to Fort Duquesne.”

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis

Deploying broad historical knowledge and a keen comparative eye, he does an enormous amount of discoursing around the premise that “the clothes we wear today are anachronistic, irrational and harmful.”

From The New Yorker Jul. 11, 2019

He has presented himself as a cerebral type of Jimmy Stewart character, plain-spoken in manner but boasting degrees from Harvard and Oxford, discoursing happily about James Joyce and flaunting his proficiency in Norwegian.

From New York Times Apr. 14, 2019

His image should be what politicians and elected officials envision before they begin discoursing about what can we do, what must we do, to ensure this does not happen again.

From Washington Times Nov. 19, 2018

"That's like a field trip to heaven," says Mara, who seconds earlier was discoursing on the debilitating effects of screen life.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2018

Harry thought he heard Percy discoursing loudly on broomstick regulations, and was quite glad of the excuse not to stop and say hello....

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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