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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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But he wants “Tip Toe,” in particular, to encourage discourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

As speculation swirled about why employees at OpenAI and Anthropic were speaking so freely about their personal beliefs, Korbak jumped into the public discourse.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

I have seen that firsthand while leading discourse programs at Bucknell University and several others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Despite all the public discourse around loneliness and the need to connect, the cold call violates some of the communication norms we’ve spent decades developing.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

In that chapter we saw that in a coherent passage the topic of the discourse is aligned with the topic of the sentence.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Did he not go continually to the holy springs with an insatiable thirst, to the sacrifices, to books, to the Brahmins’ discourses?

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

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

The old lady sat erect and dignified in her straight-backed chair, and the two discoursed at length of days gone by.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

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

"That's like a field trip to heaven," says Mara, who seconds earlier was discoursing on the debilitating effects of screen life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2018

Directed by Matt Bassett, “The Typographer’s Dream” features three eccentric experts discoursing on the wonders, and occasionally the frustrations, of their chosen disciplines.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2015

The old warrior, with his shining bald head and huge hands, looked as if he would prefer battle to discoursing in council.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander




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