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dialogue

[dahy-uh-lawg, -log] / ˈdaɪ əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg /


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The prize, announced at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Thursday, awarded Carson “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Britain and Israel have "agreed on the continuation of dialogue between the governments, within which both sides will be able to raise issues important to them", he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Before cinema made him a familiar face, he spent years working in theatre, where he developed his gritty style of dialogue delivery and also mastered the intensity he brought to his on-screen characters.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Despite the Russian dialogue and setting, writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s suspense thriller is France’s entry for best international feature at the Oscars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

A Socratic dialogue raged within him: How unusual was the resulting position if he followed that particular line?

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Shouldn’t a museum, of all places, be where complex dialogues about art and humanity can prosper?

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Greer came off as a technocrat who paid attention and engaged respectfully while taking notes during dialogues with them, the people said, adding that Greer acknowledged Mexico’s strategic role in North American supply chains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

“We want dialogues and discussions where the Cubans are the protagonists.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026

"The place where the chats went haywire was exactly when Gemini was upgraded to have persistent memory" and more sophisticated dialogues, Jay Edelson, the lead lawyer for the case, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

Before leaving New York, I enrolled in a monthlong French class taught by a beautiful young Parisian woman who had us memorize a series of dialogues from an audiocassette that accompanied our textbook.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

Sophocles, however, so dialogued this part of the drama, that it has no appearance of a contrivance to instruct, but seems a natural conversation of the dramatis personæ.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

Thus foolishly dialogued I with my heart; and yet, all the time, this heart is Pamela.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Will he bear, do you think, to be thus dialogued with?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

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

“We’re dialoguing with this masterpiece in the new forms of art, video, dance, theater. It’s like saying thank you to a masterpiece like the Sistine Chapel.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2018

Who has not burst into laughter on reading that excellent comic scene where he paints himself dialoguing with her before the registrar?

From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite




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