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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

The following “Dear Joe” email exchange is a hypothetical email colloquy between an expert in military law and a fictional service member seeking advice on how to deal with the current situation.

From Slate Nov. 24, 2025

And in the second act, he has a crucial existential colloquy with Marianne, Rachel Bay Jones’ wealthy airhead, who reveals a surprising amount of depth in a philosophical back and forth with her uncertain confessor.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2023

He attached a printout of his colloquy with the bot, which shows it tossing out words like “sure” and “certainly!”

From Seattle Times Jun. 9, 2023

Now then, their colloquy at an end, they went their ways—Athena toward illustrious Lakedaimon far over sea, to join Odysseus’ son.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

And I heard these colloquies with Kagan and Barrett as a kind of rubber-meets-the-road moment, where they were like: “You need to promise us that this stops here.”

From Slate May 16, 2025

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

Despite a sense of the historical importance – and members’ efforts to dramatize the hearing with outbursts and impassioned colloquies – the mood was subdued.

From The Guardian Dec. 12, 2019

Leonard, during these colloquies, had sat apart, seemingly absorbed in reading, and secretly stung by Randal's disregard of his presence.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various




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