meaning-making
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Once in conversation, however, he is generous and deeply feeling, willing to engage in the messy project of shared meaning-making so long as it’s not the meaning of a particular reference, form or setting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The scholars said future research should explore this "outsourced meaning-making process" with larger samples of posts, and on other popular platforms such as Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
Call it an idealistic concept, but the classroom is one of the most common spaces in modern life for the potential of collective meaning-making.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2023
"At least" and other counterfactuals can make us feel better and improve performance, other research shows, even if that meaning-making process initially feels like a negation.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
Starting with that notion about the meaning-making force of religion, Fennell and Donovan used and modified some open-source neural networks, creating A.I. entities that generate official-sounding texts, liturgical-sounding music and shape-shifting stained-glass windows.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
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