discourse
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The discourse around the Clancy trial was prominent on social media, with many users being hard-pressed to find a platform where the case was not being mentioned, if not being subject to myriad conspiracy theories.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
“The Odyssey” and all its accompanying discourse remain omnipresent, but we have been talking about it since Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy was revealed months ago.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
She said the nonprofit has seen an increase in confusion and fear over pregnancy and postpartum mental-health conditions and even medications lately, in part because of social-media discourse about Clancy’s experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Her impact on the public discourse around medical advice was pretty uniformly terrible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Throughout the time of our discourse, he paced past us, frowning.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
The groups - known as akharas - have set up sprawling camps which have been a hive of activity, with tens of thousands of pilgrims visiting to hear religious discourses or attend evening prayers.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2025
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
Pocock didn’t deliver any more long discourses on wood or rowing or life, as he had the first time they’d talked.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd.
From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 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
He has the repute of being often "grumpy"; but on this occasion he has been in extremely good form and has discoursed uninterruptedly and pleasantly.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
He’s discoursing about homelessness in San Francisco when on comes a guest.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
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
He has presented himself as a cerebral type of Jimmy Stewart character, plain-spoken in manner but boasting degrees from Harvard and Oxford, discoursing happily about James Joyce and flaunting his proficiency in Norwegian.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 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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