dialogue
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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
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
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
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that following lengthy conversations, the two countries had discussed setting up a channel to communicate about AI issues called the "US-China AI dialogue".
From Barron's
He was known to fire longtime employees for not recognizing an obscure line of movie dialogue he quoted, or if he discovered they weren’t familiar with one of his favorite cartoons, comic books, or videogames.
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
"The place where the chats went haywire was exactly when Gemini was upgraded to have persistent memory" and more sophisticated dialogues, Jay Edelson, the lead lawyer for the case, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
In the dialogues he wrote he describes himself as mixing with the elite of English society, but he later claimed this was fiction not fact.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
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
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
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
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
On one tune, “Craig and I started dialoguing, and I realized this wasn’t the usual ‘I’m soloing and you’re gonna comp,’ ” Carter recalled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitement, convincing other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day…
From Time ● Oct. 5, 2016
And how could I do this better, than by dialoguing a little with him before them?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson
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