conversational

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Lore Segal’s conversational stories, Francis Spufford’s time-traveling fantasy, a murder in Scotland and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Another tip is to treat children as conversational partners even when they're babies, Danielle Matthews, a professor of psychology at University of Sheffield, told the BBC.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Also, I love the tone, which is so conversational and sometimes, I hope, pretty funny.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Mr. Jacobs and Ms. Coppola have known each other for so long that they perhaps rely, like many close friends, on conversational shorthand so as not to replay well-worn material.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

You have to talk about something, and money seems to have filled the conversational niche made available when people stopped discussing the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris