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dialogue

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


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"A dialogue may be pursued with the understanding of Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping," said Yang Moo-jin, former president of the University of North Korean Studies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

In response, the Foreign Ministry said U.N. human-rights bodies should remain impartial and engage in constructive dialogue with member states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

In a city that is multicultural but also segregated, Cooks said, “there are multiple art worlds,” and this “unprecedented project” puts them all in dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

And when will a dialogue be established with students and teachers' bodies on the subject of education?

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

I feign uncontrollable excitement and unleash a devil’s piano of dialogue.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Constructive dialogues require fairness and respect and don’t try to force consensus or a particular outcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

"The two countries have a long history of backchannel dialogues," Markey notes, "and these have at times been effective ways to mitigate hostility and even to set the stage for more formal dialogues."

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

The question-and-answer sessions, dubbed "interactive dialogues," were introduced in 2016.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue?

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Through the dialogued story it led up to the drama.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner

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

Their voices, harmonizing and dialoguing, share a duet about infatuation, distance and anticipation: “I don’t have photos with you, but I have a space on the wall.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

Friedrich sent him a gold snuffbox by and by, but had no farther dialoguing.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle


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