dialogue
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"Engagement is slow, progress is incremental, and reversals are frequent," is the UN's sober summary of the past five years of on-off dialogue.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the rare snippets of dialogue that underscore these ideas are cringemaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
"Reading papers from both research fields, we realized that deeper dialogue between researchers from both fields is necessary."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
In a moment when no one can quite agree on how to properly address what’s so clearly happening before our eyes with Grande, a film like “Maddie’s Secret” opens a dialogue.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"The two countries have a long history of backchannel dialogues," Markey notes, "and these have at times been effective ways to mitigate hostility and even to set the stage for more formal dialogues."
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
“We want dialogues and discussions where the Cubans are the protagonists.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
In a study published last month by the scientific journal Nature, academics including Cornell University's David Rand reported that human-AI dialogues may have a substantive effect on voters' electoral decisions.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
Today, coaches are allowed to advise players during a match, and Alcaraz’s running dialogues in Spanish with Ferrero became a staple of major finals; Alcaraz’s engine running hot as a placid Ferrero preached calm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
He was versatile, and Major Major soon found himself incorporating the signature in fragments of imaginary dialogues.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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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
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
Will he bear, do you think, to be thus dialogued with?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson
Beaumarchais soon left his horse for the carriage, and as no author dialogued better for the stage so no man ever brought more art into his conversation.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
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
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
"It's sort of a cool checks and balances system. That's important, because we've had some really good success as far as dialoguing and getting people on board with what we're doing," she says.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2022
“In the comments, these people are actually dialoguing, actually talking to each other,” Blaschko said.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022
I often think of Robert Plant himself dialoguing with the movie when I see that scene.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2020
Who has not burst into laughter on reading that excellent comic scene where he paints himself dialoguing with her before the registrar?
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Elizabeth S. Kite
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