discourse
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The shift to a November offering was made before public discourse on AI safety hit a fever pitch last week, some people familiar with the timing said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Plus, his music sucks, and most people would find it impossible that useful public discourse would ever emerge from an Ed Sheeran concert.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
Still, references to dark chapters of his decades in absolute power are tightly censored in public discourse.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“The Odyssey” and all its accompanying discourse remain omnipresent, but we have been talking about it since Christopher Nolan’s casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy was revealed months ago.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
My intention was to give younger people a context for the hate surfacing in the news and in political discourse and to give them a reason to hope.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
In this way, the parallels and connections between European and non-Western antiliberal discourses are neatly illustrated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
"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
Pocock didn’t deliver any more long discourses on wood or rowing or life, as he had the first time they’d talked.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
In the larger memorial I have already discoursed upon this at length.
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
"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
Harry thought he heard Percy discoursing loudly on broomstick regulations, and was quite glad of the excuse not to stop and say hello....
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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