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
Secretary-General António Guterres called for a global framework to manage AI risks, and the body has launched an international dialogue with government and technology companies to approaches to governing the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"Governments with the greatest AI capabilities have the greatest responsibilities to humanity, to establish channels for dialogue," Guterres said in his address to the assembly.
From Barron's
In the end, what I respected most about my parents was that when we didn't see eye to eye on certain topics, we were permitted to have a respectful dialogue.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Shouldn’t a museum, of all places, be 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
"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
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
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
Sophocles, however, so dialogued this part of the drama, that it has no appearance of a contrivance to instruct, but seems a natural conversation of the dramatis personæ.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
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
They read very much like dialogued essays; and it is interesting to compare them with Addison's essays which treat sometimes of the same subjects.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
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
There’s a lot of big ideas and spaces that I’m now dialoguing with.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
"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
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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