conversational

Definition of conversationalnext
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having the style and content of everyday conversation struck a very conversational tone in his reports of his travels through foreign countries

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Recent Examples of conversational The company also plans to improve response depth, conversational continuity, and personalization as GPT-Live develops. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026 In Adobe GenStudio, its toolset for marketers, a new conversational AI interface allows users to direct campaign planning, creation and activation while Coworker coordinates AI agents and workflows. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 Nov. 2026 Even as that happens, nothing more than grassy coatings or conversational flakes is expected. — Eric Fisher, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2026 Most searches now provide an AI Overview at the top, and the company is constantly coming up with new ways to nudge people toward the conversational AI Mode chatbot function. — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026 Google recently published a study in The Lancet involving its own conversational medical AI system, called AMIE. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026 There’s a lot of clever obfuscation in this episode’s conversational dances, but sometimes the characters really skewer each other. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026 The students’ attorneys argue that the messages must be evaluated in their original conversational context and that each participant should be held responsible only for his own statements and conduct. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026 Apple is rolling out Siri AI, a more powerful and conversational version of its voice assistant. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversational
Adjective
  • Cam asked her, incredulous that his talkative fiancée had nothing to say.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Elementary school students may have tantrums, be clingy, have toileting accidents, engage in uncontrollable crying or become less talkative as a result of changes in schools, homes and caregivers.
    — Nikki R Wooten, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Each book had anywhere from 20 to 50, even 75, contributors, who wrote in a warm, colloquial style.
    — Jennifer Rich, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2026
  • That’s the colloquial name for the Salkin House, an 1,100-square-foot dwelling perched on a hillside lot, built for violist Jules Salkin in 1948 by John Lautner, the famed midcentury modern architect.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The vernacular poets call it hearpe or harpa, among other names; cithara in Latin.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
  • For me, a poster, in a Native context, is something that communicates a message through typography, visual language or vernacular language, and is intended to be publicly shown or expressed.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The 11-year old company has been criticized for not being sufficiently transparent and communicative about its operations, at a time when public concerns about AI’s potential harms to society, the labor market, and the environment are rising.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Through the administration’s embrace (and extensive personal leveraging) of crypto’s potential, crypto and retail speculation are increasingly being woven into the fabric of communicative and cultural spaces.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The informal meetup was intended as a way to convey the chiefs’ collective wisdom and experience—and to offer, in miniature, a nuts-and-bolts version of the transition of executive power that is a hallmark of American democracy.
    — Chris Whipple, Vanity Fair, 10 Nov. 2026
  • That has made neighborhood businesses increasingly important as informal galleries, giving artists a place to reach customers, sell their work and build recognition.
    — J.M. Banks November 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2026

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“Conversational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversational. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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