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discourse

[dis-kawrs, -kohrs, dis-kawrs, -kohrs, dis-kawrs, -kohrs] / ˈdɪs kɔrs, -koʊrs, dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs, dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs /




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That is the way out of the discourse doom loop and into the solution.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

It is, of course, a natural limitation of the defense of the Great Books, as a genre, that the discourse fails to live up to the actual experience of reading any one of those books.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

He also said the "increasing relentlessness in public discourse" had given him "deep pause for thought".

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Caitlin Clark will be in the lineup when the Indiana Fever face the Sparks at Crypto.com Arena after a week-plus of discourse around the star player.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

When the direwolf howled again, Tyrion shut the heavy leather-bound cover on the book he was reading, a hundred-year-old discourse on the changing of the seasons by a long-dead maester.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

In this way, the parallels and connections between European and non-Western antiliberal discourses are neatly illustrated.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Or, instead, could former President Trump’s extended discourses demonstrate his genius — an ability, as he says, to “weave” disparate stories into a beautiful tapestry?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2024

As the self-promoting overseer of X, he holds outsize influence over the countries whose political and electoral discourses still—for persistent lack of better alternatives—center on the text-based platform once known to them as Twitter.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2024

“This campaign also shows the power that new media has in shaping discourses on governance.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2024

He could talk about such subjects as the French Revolution and the Siberian gulags, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the discourses of Disraeli.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

On Wednesday, Ono discoursed on group theory and theorems of Lagrange and Fermat as students watched him sketch, with a sure and rapid hand, the symbols of high-level math.

From Washington Post Mar. 27, 2020

Our guide, young but practiced in the art of distracting cold tourists, poured hot berry juice and discoursed on Arctic matters.

From The New Yorker Apr. 22, 2019

He discoursed on the supremacy of brown antlers — which are fresh with blood — to white ones.

From New York Times Apr. 4, 2018

According to the film historian Kevin Brownlow, the crew sometimes took the film out of the camera and continued to crank as Tree discoursed, so as not to waste precious feet of celluloid.

From Slate Dec. 4, 2015

And has it not ever been in song and story that the slave of her lord's will discoursed sweet music to him?

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

Each of the chapters in “Lynch/Oz” effectively functions as a mini-essay on the documentary’s subject, with the hosts discoursing on narrative prototypes, the unconscious, visual techniques, Lynch’s work and occasionally their own.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 2023

But there will be plenty of time for hyping and discoursing this summer.

From Washington Post Jun. 21, 2022

Deploying broad historical knowledge and a keen comparative eye, he does an enormous amount of discoursing around the premise that “the clothes we wear today are anachronistic, irrational and harmful.”

From The New Yorker Jul. 11, 2019

His image should be what politicians and elected officials envision before they begin discoursing about what can we do, what must we do, to ensure this does not happen again.

From Washington Times Nov. 19, 2018

Harry thought he heard Percy discoursing loudly on broomstick regulations, and was quite glad of the excuse not to stop and say hello....

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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