colloquy

Their colloquy is interrupted when a rampaging animal is heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The unintended effect, however, is of cramped twin biographies, when what we’re here for is a drawn-out colloquy in a tight space: Lewis’ gentle prodding of a rationalist’s edges versus Freud’s fulminating about God’s existence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

Some of his dialogue scenes — including a riveting colloquy between the questing Marianne and the questioning bishop — have the shape, rhythm and sorrowful wit of a Sondheim song.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

He attached a printout of his colloquy with the bot, which shows it tossing out words like “sure” and “certainly!”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

Plainly skeptical but unwilling to engage in a colloquy with a wheedling Teller, Fermi pleaded that he was too tired from the flight to give him a hearing, much less a commitment.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

You hear it deployed in corporate colloquies, political speeches and school prospectuses as if it were a magic wand.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2021

Those skits transformed Bob and Doug McKenzie, two knucklehead Canadians, into cultural icons with colloquialism-filled colloquies like this scintillating exchange:

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2020

Otherwise, these colloquies offered as much insight as your average sideline interview, which is to say little.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2020

Despite a sense of the historical importance – and members’ efforts to dramatize the hearing with outbursts and impassioned colloquies – the mood was subdued.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2019

To stay their stomachs against a protracted search, for their colloquies sat late, they ordered a plentiful dinner to be placed before them.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Fritz August Gottfried Endell