dialogue
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has played down the prospect of talks taking place in New York, saying dialogue between the U.S. and Iran is essential but would probably take place elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The judges said: "A Jamaican epic from one of the most impactful Caribbean novelists today; readers will love the shifting register of the dialogue and poetic phrasings, often pierced through with sharp, double-edged humour."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Despite the film having no dialogue, it has a star-studded voice cast, including Dani Dyer, Justin Fletcher, Nina Sosanya, Paul Whitehouse and Roman Kemp.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The latest incident comes as South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has repeatedly called for unconditional dialogue with the North, overtures that have so far gone unanswered by Pyongyang.
From Barron's
If all I had to do was rattle off lines of dialogue from WarGames on cue for the next two hours, this was going to be a breeze.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Shouldn’t a museum, of all places, be a place where complex dialogues about art and humanity can prosper?
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
A senior county official said the dialogues have been productive and could result in a resolution soon—a prospect that doesn’t sit well with the Fisher Island interests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
“We want dialogues and discussions where the Cubans are the protagonists.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
India and Bangladesh conduct annual military exercises, co-ordinated naval patrols, annual defence dialogues and operate a $500m Indian line of credit for defence purchases.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Most often these dialogues took only a few minutes, but by the end of September there had already been two occasions when they had lasted more than three quarters of an hour.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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I have not dialogued with her about the book, nor have I had the opportunity to read it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2016
Thus foolishly dialogued I with my heart; and yet, all the time, this heart is Pamela.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
Through the dialogued story it led up to the drama.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
Dialogue is, indeed, the original word transferred bodily into the English language: διελογιζετο εν ἑαυτῳ—he dialogued in himself: his soul and he held a conversation on the subject.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
At the end of the fifteenth century F. de Rojas wrote a dialogued story, Calisto e Melibœa, about two distressed lovers.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
“It feels like you’re dialoguing with your healthcare provider,” Merrill said.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Interspersed throughout the story are black-and-white “mystical visions,” as Anderson calls them, in which Korda sees himself in heaven atoning for his sins and even dialoguing with God.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
“In the comments, these people are actually dialoguing, actually talking to each other,” Blaschko said.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022
Their voices, harmonizing and dialoguing, share a duet about infatuation, distance and anticipation: “I don’t have photos with you, but I have a space on the wall.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
Friedrich sent him a gold snuffbox by and by, but had no farther dialoguing.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
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