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discourse

[dis-kawrs, -kohrs, dis-kawrs, -kohrs, dis-kawrs, -kohrs] / ˈdɪs kɔrs, -koʊrs, dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs, dɪsˈkɔrs, -ˈkoʊrs /




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My research on how these movements evolve online and intersect with political activists and extremist networks was directly relevant to tracing how COVID-origin claims moved from fringe communities into mainstream political discourse.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

Meta’s chief executive said that the discourse regarding AI isn’t optimistic enough and that banning foreign open-source models wouldn’t be productive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

With Parsons now adapting the Backrooms for a feature-length horror thriller, the strange fictive world is rapidly entering mainstream discourse.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

That is the way out of the discourse doom loop and into the solution.

From Slate Jul. 20, 2026

But as we shall see, coherent discourse also uses devices that differ from the branching of a tree, and our metaphors must expand accordingly.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

“This campaign also shows the power that new media has in shaping discourses on governance.”

From Seattle Times Mar. 4, 2024

Did he not go continually to the holy springs with an insatiable thirst, to the sacrifices, to books, to the Brahmins’ discourses?

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

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

Course followed course, while sweet music was discoursed, and Dick felt in a land of enchantment.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph

But there will be plenty of time for hyping and discoursing this summer.

From Washington Post Jun. 21, 2022

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

"That's like a field trip to heaven," says Mara, who seconds earlier was discoursing on the debilitating effects of screen life.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 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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