as in discussion
talking or a talk between two or more people
Thomas Jefferson was celebrated for his brilliant, wide-ranging conversations with a host of friends and acquaintances
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Recent Examples of conversation
Consider family meals in which conversations are constantly interrupted by notifications.
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Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
What hit me was how quickly the conversation centered around control and how little time was spent discussing who was expected to absorb the consequences.
—Demetri Giannikopoulos, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
The conversation tends to focus on automation, productivity, and speed.
—Patricia Camden, Fortune, 20 June 2026
The company has also been in conversations with publishing companies and other artists, mainly from the Eighties and Nineties, though no names are being disclosed yet.
—Lily Moayeri, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
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Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
What hit me was how quickly the conversation centered around control and how little time was spent discussing who was expected to absorb the consequences.
—Demetri Giannikopoulos, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
The conversation tends to focus on automation, productivity, and speed.
—Patricia Camden, Fortune, 20 June 2026
The company has also been in conversations with publishing companies and other artists, mainly from the Eighties and Nineties, though no names are being disclosed yet.
—Lily Moayeri, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversation
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Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Syed Asim Munir have departed Islamabad and are on their way to Switzerland where diplomatic discussions between the US and Iran are unfolding, a statement from the prime minister’s office said Sunday.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
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Swift showed up in a video clip at the end of the show that circled back to earlier discussion about Kelce’s picky eating proclivities.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
20 June 2026
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The new hire was Mike Brown, a funny, amiable man, who, at least outwardly, looks to have a converse personality to Thibodeau.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2026
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Inside this building, generations of artists a century apart converse about similarly distressing and awe-inducing encounters between us and our technological creations.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
19 Mar. 2026
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The team agreed to acquire wing Aaron Wiggins from the Thunder in exchange for two second-round picks, according to a person familiar with the situation.—
Lauren Williams,
AJC.com,
22 June 2026
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The Dream acquired Reese from the Chicago Sky in April in exchange for Atlanta’s first-round picks in 2027 and 2028.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
21 June 2026
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Officials in eight states—Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas—encouraged students to establish Club America chapters in their public schools, often describing the group as devoted to free speech and civil discourse.—
Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
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Because healthy digital discourse now apparently requires knock-and-explain visits.—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
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Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the same chat window open so the context carries through.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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In February 2026, Maher resurfaced their feud during a chat with Kimmel’s former The Man Show cohost Adam Carolla.—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 June 2026
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The essentially dialogue-free stories are feasts for the eyes and have a surprising amount of heart.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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Dani provides the voiceover, filled with strained metaphors about earthquakes and sermons on the importance of summer, but the pretense that the dialogue is taken from his interrogation is quickly abandoned.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
19 June 2026
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“Conversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversation. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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