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Given the phrase’s innate poeticism, it’s often used by scholars, authors, casanovas and perhaps overly didactic filmmakers to convey the fleeting intensity of life’s most burning joys.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
"I will call in Israel's Ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman and have directed Australia's Ambassador to Israel to convey our views directly to Israel as the Australian Government considers next steps."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
She eulogizes the emoticon, that conglomeration of punctuation marks that English-language texters used to convey feelings before the arrival in 2010 of the emoji.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
They could even convey the rules they had discovered through gestures or sketches.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
He tried to convey this through his gaze, but she didn’t seem to get it.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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Wile E. Coyote conveys his hunger in a glower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
While Noseda sometimes practices likability to a fault, his sense of drama is ever sure, and it is hard to get enough of the lyrical sweetness he conveys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Considered alongside its stars’ tragically brief lives, “Ice Princess” conveys the critical need to give teenagers both stalwart encouragement and the tools to speak up when they need help.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Ms. Day conveys Gelsomina’s strange existential awakening with a mix of narrative strategies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Robles later said that the information had not been conveyed via a report.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Perhaps the most fundamental authority of Congress is its “power of the purse”—the exclusive power conveyed by Article 1 of the Constitution to both impose taxes and control the expenditure of federal money.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
As an introduction to this band, they couldn’t have chosen a better song; it precisely conveyed exactly who the band was and what they were about.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said mediators were actively trying to prevent further escalation and had conveyed various proposals to Iran, whose diplomats would work to see if there could be a solution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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It is the same message officials across the country have been conveying in British Columbia, where around 115 fires are currently burning.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Greenspan exhibited a deft touch with financial markets, saying the barest minimum in his statements but seemingly always conveying what traders wanted to hear.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
What’s slightly more vague is the extent Barker is willing to go to in conveying just how intense the terms of Bear’s wish really are.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Could he have had an accomplice secretly conveying perfect computer-generated moves?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles?
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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