table talk

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Recent Examples of table talk Enjoy a table talk with fathers, in partnership with the Black Child Development Institute, United Way of Greater Cincinnati, and DJ Dough. Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 30 Jan. 2024 Friday’s list of activities featured ice breakers, table talks, and opportunities to write down our feelings, thoughts and ideas in our high-quality journals provided by BLK. Okla Jones, Essence, 20 Sep. 2023 However, the timing of those main table talks could move up, after Fain’s new deadline was given late Monday, the source added. Chris Isidore, CNN, 19 Sep. 2023 As edited, with valuable commentary by Wagner, Trevelyan’s letters and diaries blend gossip, declarations of love, Eliot’s table talk and, not least, a remarkable woman’s shrewd observations. Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 16 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for table talk
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Noun
  • The chat was organized by Michael Waltz, whom Trump later removed as national security adviser.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025
  • The details were relayed in two chat groups that included Hegseth - one with Vice President JD Vance and other high-ranking officials, and a second one that included Hegseth's wife, who is not employed by the government.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • But if confirmed, the Russian advance would be a setback for Ukrainian forces at a time when peace talks have stalled.
    Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 8 June 2025
  • He’s started bypassing them, the City Hall reporters, in favor of talk podcasts, conservative outlets, and the remaining bits of the ethnic media that still exists in the city.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Tariffs, recession chatter, political uncertainty -- these factors are upending the sales environment for mainstream and luxury automakers alike.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 June 2025
  • An etiquette expert and the author of a new book about manners is causing plenty of online chatter about the proper way to eat a banana and other common handheld foods.
    Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Provide questions that go deeper than typical small talk.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • That should’ve been that, but my Midwestern manners got the best of me, and my first question to the two-time Emmy winner, one-time Tony winner, and all-time comic great became nothing more than polite, near-rhetorical, small talk.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2025

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