dialogue
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This is an open dialogue around diagnosing the situation we are in and what it will take to move forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
By deemphasizing dialogue, their stunt work and visual effects seize the spotlight.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Enter veteran character actor Lin Shaye, whose psychic Elise has been a series mainstay and a reliable provider of expository dialogue, despite the fact that her character died at the end of the 2011 original.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Still, four and a half years into the war, criticism is multiplying over the lack of dialogue between society and the presidency, which critics say has become increasingly insular.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The character I was playing changed from one scene to the next, switching to whomever had the most dialogue.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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The goal of the meeting was to discuss an easing of U.S. sanctions and kick-start higher-level dialogues about resetting U.S.-Eritrea ties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
“We want dialogues and discussions where the Cubans are the protagonists.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
India and Bangladesh conduct annual military exercises, co-ordinated naval patrols, annual defence dialogues and operate a $500m Indian line of credit for defence purchases.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Yet in comments just hours after her big win, Takaichi sounded a diplomatic note, saying: "Our nation is open to various dialogues with China."
From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026
“Most of what? The dialogues, you mean? What about later things? Plotinus?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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I have not dialogued with her about the book, nor have I had the opportunity to read it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2016
They read very much like dialogued essays; and it is interesting to compare them with Addison's essays which treat sometimes of the same subjects.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
Thus foolishly dialogued I with my heart; and yet, all the time, this heart is Pamela.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
At the end of the fifteenth century F. de Rojas wrote a dialogued story, Calisto e Melibœa, about two distressed lovers.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
Beaumarchais soon left his horse for the carriage, and as no author dialogued better for the stage so no man ever brought more art into his conversation.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
Interspersed throughout the story are black-and-white “mystical visions,” as Anderson calls them, in which Korda sees himself in heaven atoning for his sins and even dialoguing with God.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
"It's sort of a cool checks and balances system. That's important, because we've had some really good success as far as dialoguing and getting people on board with what we're doing," she says.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
“In the comments, these people are actually dialoguing, actually talking to each other,” Blaschko said.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022
On one tune, “Craig and I started dialoguing, and I realized this wasn’t the usual ‘I’m soloing and you’re gonna comp,’ ” Carter recalled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
And how could I do this better, than by dialoguing a little with him before them?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson
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