discursive

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Cross John McEnroe with Ratso Rizzo and you’ll have some idea of whom you’ll be spending this long, discursive trip with.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

The coin of the realm on such shows is small-talk riffing and discursive, big-ideas bullshitting, and he excelled at neither.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2025

It may be true that at the discursive level there was a change in the way the president and the Mexican government talk about the drug trade.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2024

Mr. Trump began by speaking in his usual discursive, dissembling manner.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

The theory of signs originates in the law, and signs are treated as if they speak because court cases are discursive performances.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton