discourse
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She said the nonprofit has seen an increase in confusion and fear over pregnancy and postpartum mental-health conditions and even medications lately, in part because of social-media discourse about Clancy’s experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"It is surprising that the discourse from many developing AI is so filled with doom," he writes.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The discourse around these celebrities shouldn’t center, for instance, on whatever message their body image might be sending to young people who look up to them.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
“There is a sense of inevitability about it, and I think that’s infected perhaps a lot of the political discourse in California,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In Sahagun’s reconstruction, the Franciscans speak first, their interpreters struggling to make European concepts clear in Nahuatl verse, the language of high discourse.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Mr. Howard has come to biography writing after a distinguished career in publishing at Doubleday Books, and he discourses with knowledge and zeal about Cowley’s second act as a revivalist and gatekeeper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
"I've seen different discourses online where people are really upset that she's doing movies," the 23-year-old from Luton says.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
Or, instead, could former President Trump’s extended discourses demonstrate his genius — an ability, as he says, to “weave” disparate stories into a beautiful tapestry?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
As the self-promoting overseer of X, he holds outsize influence over the countries whose political and electoral discourses still—for persistent lack of better alternatives—center on the text-based platform once known to them as Twitter.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2024
His published discourses on the physics of music and on the proper use of dissonance - deliberately clashing discords of various kinds - influenced many, if not all, Italian composers of the seventeenth century.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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On Wednesday, Ono discoursed on group theory and theorems of Lagrange and Fermat as students watched him sketch, with a sure and rapid hand, the symbols of high-level math.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2020
Our guide, young but practiced in the art of distracting cold tourists, poured hot berry juice and discoursed on Arctic matters.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 22, 2019
He discoursed on the supremacy of brown antlers — which are fresh with blood — to white ones.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
According to the film historian Kevin Brownlow, the crew sometimes took the film out of the camera and continued to crank as Tree discoursed, so as not to waste precious feet of celluloid.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
While Burnet was preparing the lather, Major Burckhardt, his thick neck swathed with a snowy napkin, looked up at the ceiling, and discoursed of many things.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Herbert Strang
Each of the chapters in “Lynch/Oz” effectively functions as a mini-essay on the documentary’s subject, with the hosts discoursing on narrative prototypes, the unconscious, visual techniques, Lynch’s work and occasionally their own.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
He’s discoursing about homelessness in San Francisco when on comes a guest.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
Deploying broad historical knowledge and a keen comparative eye, he does an enormous amount of discoursing around the premise that “the clothes we wear today are anachronistic, irrational and harmful.”
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 11, 2019
His image should be what politicians and elected officials envision before they begin discoursing about what can we do, what must we do, to ensure this does not happen again.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2018
The old warrior, with his shining bald head and huge hands, looked as if he would prefer battle to discoursing in council.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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