as in conversation
talking or a talk between two or more people
ideally, the college classroom should be a place of intellectual converse between student and teacher
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as in to chat
to engage in casual or rambling conversation
jurors are not allowed to converse while the attorneys go off to one side to confer with the judge
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as in reverse
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Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2019
The 90-minute call, which included two interpreters to help her and the subject converse, went well.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2024
Enough voters enjoyed conversing with the AI Palmer that the real Palmer ended up winning enough votes to beat Joe Biden in the Democratic caucus in American Samoa earlier this year.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
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Noun
Scholars have written reams about negative coercion—threats to use violence or political and economic punishments—but its converse, positive coercion, is no less powerful.
—Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2019
The 90-minute call, which included two interpreters to help her and the subject converse, went well.
—Paresh Dave, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
Verb
While Affleck did not attend the TIFF premiere, Damon and Lopez posed together on the red carpet and were later photographed conversing with their hands clasped together.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2024
Enough voters enjoyed conversing with the AI Palmer that the real Palmer ended up winning enough votes to beat Joe Biden in the Democratic caucus in American Samoa earlier this year.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
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“Converse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/converse. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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