talk
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We always stayed in touch, almost every week or so and we'd usually talk about our ailments and then about what we'd been doing that particular week.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Obviously we can't talk about combining companies and that kind of thing on an earnings call. It's got to be done with the appropriate process."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
A primer for romance in the digital age: People talk a lot about how dating apps have made it harder to meet someone.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
Its setting is much older, a version of medieval Japan where humans are crafting iron into firearms and beasts can talk, but nobody wants to listen to each other.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
When I get to school, the videos are all anyone can talk about.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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The latest strikes bring further uncertainty to investors as to when shipping might resume at more typical levels through the Strait of Hormuz, with peace talks between Washington and Tehran no longer seeming imminent.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
In June, The Wall Street Journal reported that GM was in talks with Lockheed about making commonly used parts that could help Lockheed bolster munitions production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Dairy farmers have also been known to stage protests - complete with tractors and cattle on Parliament Hill - when faced with possible concessions in trade talks.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Her statement talks about purpose, healing and a journey to “be better, improve and transform our spiritual selves.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
He talks over her, like he doesn’t hear her.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Employees at Axel Springer’s Politico have talked about limiting Google’s and other bots’ access to its free articles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
In his first annual “state of the district” speech, held at Garfield High in East Los Angeles, Chait, 51, talked of stability, hard work well done and school district family values.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
So if you agreed to send notes after every meeting, make sure you’re sending a detailed outline of what you both talked about in a timely manner.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some names which have been talked about include the Aberavon MP and current UK government junior minister Stephen Kinnock and the junior Wales Office minister and Cardiff North MP Anna McMorrin.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Well, I’m sorry I don’t understand your super important connection with this boy you’ve spent two years insisting you despise! Maybe if you ever talked to me, I’d know what’s going on.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Syd and I are talking over coffee at a crowded spot on Jefferson Boulevard that she says she visits every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“We aren’t talking about saving enough for your needs in retirement,” said Steven Rosenthal, a corporate tax lawyer who recently retired after about a dozen years at the nonprofit Tax Policy Center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
If anything, it’s great that the film has people talking, excited to go to the movies again after too many years wondering if theaters could survive the rise of streaming.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The White House said, of Frayer, that he “is not involved in the United States’ diplomatic discussions and has no idea what they are talking about.”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
I mumbled like a man talking in his sleep.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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