colloquy

Their colloquy is interrupted when a rampaging animal is heard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The following “Dear Joe” email exchange is a hypothetical email colloquy between an expert in military law and a fictional service member seeking advice on how to deal with the current situation.

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

And in the second act, he has a crucial existential colloquy with Marianne, Rachel Bay Jones’ wealthy airhead, who reveals a surprising amount of depth in a philosophical back and forth with her uncertain confessor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 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

Now then, their colloquy at an end, they went their ways—Athena toward illustrious Lakedaimon far over sea, to join Odysseus’ son.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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

The normal free-for-all of questions piled atop questions was replaced with rigidly structured colloquies in a preordained order.

From Slate ● May 4, 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

“Mike Wallace Is Here” opens with one of its more provocative colloquies, an interchange between the subject and controversial host Bill O’Reilly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2019

To Him I can never say too much, and He loves those silent heart-to-heart colloquies.

From Mater Christi Meditations on Our Lady by Mother St. Paul