carry on a conversation
idiom
: to talk among each other
It was so noisy that we could hardly carry on a conversation.
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Decades later some cars can in certain conditions already drive themselves, just like KITT, but A.I. hasn’t yet been able to give us a convincing dashboard assistant that can carry on a conversation naturally.
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Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 June 2023
Via everywhere on the internet, here's Jeremiah McDonald, who used a 20-year-old videotape of his younger self to carry on a conversation across time.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2012
The bill, by Rep. Randy Wood, R-Anniston, would expand that restriction to ban holding a cell phone to carry on a conversation.
—Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2023
Vigorous intensity is marked by the inability to carry on a conversation.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
ChatGPT, the latest technological sensation, is an artificial intelligence chatbot with an amazing ability to carry on a conversation.
—Michael S.a. Graziano, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
Because his father can talk to anybody and carry on a conversation.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2022
Some examples are chatbots via AI, and even the first humanoid robot to gain citizenship, Sophia, who can carry on a conversation.
—Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2022
Please tell your readers that some people do not want to carry on a conversation on a plane, and some, like me, are too tired, too sad or too preoccupied to talk.
—Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
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Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 16 June 2023
Via everywhere on the internet, here's Jeremiah McDonald, who used a 20-year-old videotape of his younger self to carry on a conversation across time.
—Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2012
The bill, by Rep. Randy Wood, R-Anniston, would expand that restriction to ban holding a cell phone to carry on a conversation.
—Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 5 Apr. 2023
Vigorous intensity is marked by the inability to carry on a conversation.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 28 Feb. 2023
ChatGPT, the latest technological sensation, is an artificial intelligence chatbot with an amazing ability to carry on a conversation.
—Michael S.a. Graziano, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2023
Because his father can talk to anybody and carry on a conversation.
—Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2022
Some examples are chatbots via AI, and even the first humanoid robot to gain citizenship, Sophia, who can carry on a conversation.
—Susan Johnston, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2022
Please tell your readers that some people do not want to carry on a conversation on a plane, and some, like me, are too tired, too sad or too preoccupied to talk.
—Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
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“Carry on a conversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carry%20on%20a%20conversation. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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