as in chatting
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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Recent Examples of conversing
All manner of inquiries might be required to tease out of the person what transpired while conversing with the AI.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Claude Code, released in February 2025, was Anthropic’s first successful attempt at building an AI agent—a system that takes actions on the user’s behalf, rather than merely conversing in a chat interface.
—Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
Eugenio said some of her clients have had success conversing and drilling with artificial intelligence chatbots in voice mode.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
The silence is delightfully interrupted by three older men dressed in loafers and Hawaiian shirts conversing animatedly in Greek over a half-empty box of almond cookies.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
After reading Wuoronos’ story, Pralle began conversing with her through letters, eventually persuading Wuornos to let Pralle adopt her.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Sitting with Williams now in meetings, conversing with him over text and stopping him for advice sometimes in the hallways, players are learning from his humanity.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
The brain’s circuits are all built from a mixture of inhibitory and excitatory cells conversing in diverse ways.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Powered by Apple Intelligence, a new Live Translation mode is said to deliver near real-time language translation to your ears when conversing with someone who speaks another language.
—Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
Claude Code, released in February 2025, was Anthropic’s first successful attempt at building an AI agent—a system that takes actions on the user’s behalf, rather than merely conversing in a chat interface.
—Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 15 Jan. 2026
Eugenio said some of her clients have had success conversing and drilling with artificial intelligence chatbots in voice mode.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
The silence is delightfully interrupted by three older men dressed in loafers and Hawaiian shirts conversing animatedly in Greek over a half-empty box of almond cookies.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
After reading Wuoronos’ story, Pralle began conversing with her through letters, eventually persuading Wuornos to let Pralle adopt her.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Sitting with Williams now in meetings, conversing with him over text and stopping him for advice sometimes in the hallways, players are learning from his humanity.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
The brain’s circuits are all built from a mixture of inhibitory and excitatory cells conversing in diverse ways.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
Powered by Apple Intelligence, a new Live Translation mode is said to deliver near real-time language translation to your ears when conversing with someone who speaks another language.
—Marc Saltzman, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conversing
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The couple was seen chatting, smiling and greeting their tablemates at the awards show.—
Breanne L. Heldman,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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There was nothing more thrilling than the early days of instant messaging online, chatting with your friends or your crush, and coming up with away messages.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
11 Jan. 2026
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As the industry now begins talking seriously about agentic AI, a more independent and decision-capable form of artificial intelligence, the question is no longer whether AI will reshape cars, but how far it should be allowed to go.—
Peter Lyon,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Many survivors have been helped by talking things through with a licensed psychotherapist.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Conversing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversing. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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