discourse
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Three years ago, they launched their YouTube channel Aspen in the Moment, dedicated exclusively to breaking down the latest discourse in the crafting world.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
I have seen that firsthand while leading discourse programs at Bucknell University and several others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
But that feeling of being squeezed seeps into public discourse in other ways.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
There’s been some discourse about the art of the slow burn and how the pacing has changed in an era of short episode orders and unpredictable renewals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
But I shall come to the conclusion of this discourse.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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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
Pocock didn’t deliver any more long discourses on wood or rowing or life, as he had the first time they’d talked.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
They then discoursed about the matter in hand for some time, till finding the chairman was about to proceed to business, Robertson's absence was again reverted to.
From Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas by Catherine Crowe
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
But those kinds of civilized, delegated, televised festivals of catharsis and confession have moved to the internet, which empowers more people to do more clashing and defending than discoursing.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016
Harry thought he heard Percy discoursing loudly on broomstick regulations, and was quite glad of the excuse not to stop and say hello....
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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