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[ verb ] to consider or examine in speech or writing
Examples "The article covered all the different aspects of this question" "The class discussed Dante's 'Inferno'" Used in print (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)`` You often hear people talk_about team_spirit and that sort of thing '' , Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies , `` but what this team had was a_little different . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)He talked_about unauthentic storylines too . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '' , or , as is also commonly implied , that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking_about the same thing ? (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful_thinking : do n't talk_about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take_care of themselves . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)I think that we are here also talking_of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city . Related terms |
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[ verb ] discuss or mention
Examples "They spoke of many things" Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)People talk_about `` the law of the land '' . But I suspect that the old Roman was referring to change made under military occupation - the sort of change which Tacitus was talking_about when he said , `` They make a desert , and call it peace '' ( `` Solitudinem faciunt , pacem appellant '' . ) I 'm talking_about the grand manner of the Liberal - North and South - who is not affected personally . (Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)`` They won n't talk_about who gave the information . (Breni James, Nights of the Kill....)He just did n't want to talk_about it . |
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