talk
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And under Xi, Zhu's style of open, frank talk by officials has been replaced by a much more staid, closed-off approach.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Can you talk about your attitude toward that?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Janno Lieber, chairman of the authority, complained to reporters late last month that all the talk about free bus service has contributed to passengers trying to evade paying their fare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The Welsh star said he was initially "reluctant" to talk in "too much detail" about his dad as he's "living his own life", but added he will "always love him".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The serious-minded priest, hearing all that talk about giants and enchantments, imagined that this must be the hero of the book the Duke liked to read often.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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Parties, picnics, workshops and talks were held to mark the event, with the next partial solar eclipse visible from the UK not expected until 2050 and the next total eclipse not occurring until 2090.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Still, the energy index overall was 1.5 percent lower than a month ago, indicating a downward trajectory for prices of those commodities as talks to end the war continue.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
In 2024, the Labour government, when Sir Keir Starmer was prime minister, held talks with Estonia to discuss the Baltic state's policy to house some prisoners from abroad.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
There was also little major reaction to a report that Iran and Oman were in advanced talks on reopening Hormuz to some maritime shipping.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
What if she talks to one of my other teachers, and they realize I don’t say anything in any of my classes?
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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“I finally feel like I have completed the promise I made to all those hundreds of investors that I talked to in the spring of 2020,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Goodman has talked for more than a decade about his efforts to change his lifestyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
She talked to AFP from Winchester, near Southampton, where she was filming a new housing development.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
We talked about In re Turner pushing back against racialized apprenticeship laws to expand the 13th Amendment and inform the 14th Amendment.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
We talked about Grace sometimes, the way she was fiery and romantic and how she wished she could do what I was doing, how the Hello Girls were inspiring girls all over the world.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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I tried to slip them into conversation, as if to remind whomever I was talking to perhaps I too could be beloved for my size.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Here is the problem, though: none of the models Zuckerberg is talking about is actually open-source.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
They ate their meals together and walked laps around the yard talking about life.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
"Investing is definitely something that women are talking about more, which is always a good thing," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“You tried, this time. But remember—you have no cards except the three for you, Opa, and Tante Betsie. There is no underground activity here, you don’t understand what they’re talking about. . . .”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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