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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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"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

In terms of the quickfire, I will say, there’s been a lot of discourse online.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Sarah Ravin, a clinical psychologist in Coral Gables, Fla., told me the discourse is somewhat reminiscent of the criticism that dogged some young celebrities in the 2000s, including Mary-Kate Olsen and Nicole Richie.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged’s sausage and he buttered the crumb of the Aged’s roll.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

Dr. Roland’s discourses on his “practices” could sometimes take half an hour or more.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

In a long career, 50 years and counting, Mr. Stoppard, 81, has written plays, radio plays and screenplays that have discoursed on everything from Dadaism to analytic philosophy to particle physics to early Pink Floyd.

From New York Times Oct. 16, 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

The Forester meeting with a Lion one day, they discoursed together for awhile without differing much in opinion.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

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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