discourse

A slew of online discourse unfolded last week after Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet shared that a college-aged member of the conservative nonprofit told him, “A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Our public discourse will be stronger if we distinguish what AI does from what we assume it experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Ariana Grande has been concerningly thin for years now, but the online discourse about her body exploded this week after she released the music video for “Petal,” the title track of her most recent album.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

My research on how these movements evolve online and intersect with political activists and extremist networks was directly relevant to tracing how COVID-origin claims moved from fringe communities into mainstream political discourse.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

It’s better to understand a few principles that govern time, tense, and discourse than to try to memorize a list of regulations that are tailored to the sequence-of-tense phenomenon itself.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

“This campaign also shows the power that new media has in shaping discourses on governance.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

In response to Mr Abiy, its statements have been terse and acerbic, pointedly refusing to join the "discourses" of its former ally on a matter that had "perplexed all concerned observers".

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023

His published discourses on the physics of music and on the proper use of dissonance - deliberately clashing discords of various kinds - influenced many, if not all, Italian composers of the seventeenth century.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

In the garden Mrs. Belfield discoursed placidly to Miss Doris Flower; it was perhaps fortunate that the veil of night rendered that young lady's face hard to read.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

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

Directed by Matt Bassett, “The Typographer’s Dream” features three eccentric experts discoursing on the wonders, and occasionally the frustrations, of their chosen disciplines.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2015

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