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colloquy

[kol-uh-kwee] / ˈkɒl ə kwi /


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Their colloquy is interrupted when a rampaging animal is heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

In his opinion, Judge Murphy cited an extraordinary colloquy from a hearing.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026

The unintended effect, however, is of cramped twin biographies, when what we’re here for is a drawn-out colloquy in a tight space: Lewis’ gentle prodding of a rationalist’s edges versus Freud’s fulminating about God’s existence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

“When something was wrong, there was a real colloquy between the court and Congress. The court would say, ‘Hey, this doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.’

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2022

Plainly skeptical but unwilling to engage in a colloquy with a wheedling Teller, Fermi pleaded that he was too tired from the flight to give him a hearing, much less a commitment.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Now released publicly, the album radiates companionship, with the guitars — acoustic and electric, picking and sliding — entwined in amiable colloquies.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2022

You hear it deployed in corporate colloquies, political speeches and school prospectuses as if it were a magic wand.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2021

Those skits transformed Bob and Doug McKenzie, two knucklehead Canadians, into cultural icons with colloquialism-filled colloquies like this scintillating exchange:

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2020

Otherwise, these colloquies offered as much insight as your average sideline interview, which is to say little.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2020

The second and third283 of these colloquies probably took place at a different time from the first.

From Pastor Pastorum by Rev. Henry Latham




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