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communicate

[kuh-myoo-ni-kayt] / kəˈmju nɪˌkeɪt /




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His illness may indeed be affecting his ability to temper his emotions or communicate as he once did.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

But officials also won praise for seeking to overhaul the central bank so it is better prepared for a more uncertain world, introducing new crisis-fighting tools and seeking to communicate its decisions more clearly.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

“To try and communicate to people in the language that they speak doesn’t feel like pandering. It feels like what the city should do,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The disagreement over how to communicate is narrower than it might appear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Have pockets of strong expertise and can communicate in areas of their expertise when focused.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Fed watchers are focused in particular on how Warsh communicates the central bank’s strategy, with some critics saying that he has been giving “nonanswers.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Warsh’s desire to change how the Fed communicates is a work in progress that would be hard enough in a settled economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

As a scholar of the American presidency and deliberative democracy, I pay close attention to how the nation’s chief executive exercises power and communicates with the public.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

Using brain imaging, recordings of neural activity, genetic techniques, and behavioral experiments in mice, researchers at the Allen Institute discovered that the LC communicates through several distinct pathways.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

A “major key” music piece communicates cheer, while a “minor key” mirrors grief.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Officials said the review was unlikely to be made public as it was looking at an internal policy but any changes would be clearly communicated by P&R.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Museum officials, firm leaders and local stakeholders have continually communicated that the gardens would feature “indigenous” or “native” plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

An audit by the Postal Service’s inspector general found that agency staff in these areas sometimes didn’t handle ballots correctly, mainly because instructions weren’t clearly communicated.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Korbak said he communicated with Greenblatt through OpenAI’s internal Slack, as well as on Signal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Lula, 81, and Trump, 80, have no trouble communicating by phone and have met several times -- showering each other with public praise before reverting to their fundamental disagreements.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

He was communicating with teammates during huddles and film sessions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Is there any one thing that comes to mind as the most important thing you’ve learned about communicating and connecting with people?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

These individuals spent four to five hours or more on their phones each day, largely consuming online content rather than communicating directly with other people.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The spiders were communicating once more, slowly rubbing their great ribbed back legs together like poisonous crickets.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda


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