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as in talkative
fond of talking or conversation
the antiques dealer is not the conversational sort, so customers should not expect any impromptu chats
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as in colloquial
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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as in vernacular
used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
uses conversational language instead of more stilted expressions in her campaign speeches
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Recent Examples of conversational
Price suggests using a landline to help children develop conversational skills, encouraging them to use the phone to check in with grandparents or chat with friends.
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Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
Users upload an image along with a script or voice sample, and generative AI animates the face into a conversational digital persona capable of real-time dialogue.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
His years of podcasts seem to have paid off, giving him a warmer, conversational persona that was noticeably absent in earlier years, and which is well-suited to a moment of national turmoil.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
Chatbots are designed to be cooperative and conversational.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
The integration is meant to replace tab-switching and manual filtering with a conversational assistant, according to StubHub.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 2 Jan. 2026
In Austin’s third collection, readers can expect his trademark gorgeously crystalline lyrics interspersed with more conversational wanderings, capturing new stages of life.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
New, a vibe coding tool that allows users to build apps and websites through conversational prompts.
—Eric Simons, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2026
For the next two years, the event returned to in-person but in a smaller, more conversational format.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
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Lopez describes her daughter as an energetic, talkative child who speaks both English and Spanish.—
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Then, like now, people were very talkative.—
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This time around, our Traitors and Faithfuls are a beautiful assortment of Housewives, Survivors, athletes, actors, and plenty of mothers — both literal (Donna Kelce) and in the colloquial sense (Porsha Williams).—
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The colloquial term Paczki Day is used for Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras.—
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The rooms Guest rooms and suites have been nearly completely redone, corner to corner, and brought into a modern design vernacular.—
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The Upside Down, a dark, gooey parallel universe of Hawkins, and its predatory demogorgons became part of their middle school vernacular.—
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From Ron being just the guiding light of all of it, and so understanding, communicative and gentle with me — just such a great leader in every way, shape or form.—
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The uncertainty has been hard, even with suppliers being communicative and transparent.—
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Tip amounts received from other employees paid out through tip pools, tip splitting, or other formal/informal tip-sharing arrangements.—
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However, an informal, expatriate group of academics and professionals told TIME on Sunday that, per their calculations, protester deaths could have reached 6,000 through Saturday.—
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“Conversational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conversational. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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