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dialogue

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


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Daniel West’s adaptation hits the major plot points and select lines of dialogue, but has typically, unavoidably, been streamlined and compressed.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

Though the exhibition intended to grapple with Galliano’s fall from grace and create a necessary dialogue about the limitations of artistic reverence, the dissent was too strong.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

Equally shattering is a cue surging through a long scene bereft of dialogue, where Alex discovers a tampered-with wine bottle and realizes that he is married to a spy.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Swinney told the programme: "That means change. That means doing things differently but it will always be done with patients at the heart and with good dialogue with patients and staff."

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Politics on occasion crept into the dialogue, much like an exotic plant growing amid descriptions of vetch as the ideal rotation crop.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

From the end of the seventeenth century, through sermons and lectures, through popular textbooks and dramatic dialogues, the new science was disseminated to a wider audience than ever before.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

I have not dialogued with her about the book, nor have I had the opportunity to read it.

From The Guardian Jan. 19, 2016

In the scene in which it was produced the daring author has dialogued thus: Scene III Mlle.

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

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

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

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

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded 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 arrived at Inhotim with the idea of dialoguing with the territories around the museum and with leaders from territories in and around Belo Horizonte,” he said of the capital of the state, Minas Gerais.

From New York Times Feb. 18, 2022

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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