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“But I do think we have a lot of data points at this point, and that should point us to be much more optimistic than I believe the current discourse reflects.”

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

Indeed, that was another lofty ambition: to build consensus across party lines and in the process detoxify Britain's political discourse.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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

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

He could talk about such subjects as the French Revolution and the Siberian gulags, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the discourses of Disraeli.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

And has it not ever been in song and story that the slave of her lord's will discoursed sweet music to him?

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

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