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discursive

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Buterin, who gave two talks, has a discursive and often highly theoretical talking style, making it difficult to pull out specific and succinct theses from his speeches.

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“Conversational intelligence is the constellation of features and technologies that enable humans and machines to take turns exchanging language and work toward accomplishing a discursive goal,” says Bennett.

The questions linger throughout this at times maddeningly discursive novel.

Now Intelligence possesses them by thought, a thought which is not discursive (but intuitive).

Yet the impulse to discursive commentary must be checked, for plucking flowers is a distraction from comparative botany.

The discursive faculty then becomes what our Shakespeare, with happy precision, calls "discourse of reason."

Who is more discursive than the Autocrat, the Czar of table-talkers; and whose productions are more charming or wiser?

The evidence of such principles is established by a long and discursive psychological discussion.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to discursive, such as: deviating, digressive, erratic, excursive, long-winded, and meandering.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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