There has been a discursive shift on this topic in recent years.
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Discursive
Synonyms for "discursive" (133 found)
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Strong matches (40)
Related words (66)
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1 entriesderived
13 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- безсистемен adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
- несвързан adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
Catalan
2 entries- discursiu adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
- discursiu adj (using reason and argument rather than intuition)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 漫無邊際 /漫无边际 adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
- 離題 /离题 adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
Dutch
1 entries- redenerend adj (using reason and argument rather than intuition)
Finnish
2 entries- diskursiivinen adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
- diskursiivinen adj (using reason and argument rather than intuition)
French
2 entries- discursif adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
- discursif adj (using reason and argument rather than intuition)
Greek
4 entries- έλλογος adj (using reason and argument rather than intuition)
- αμετροεπής adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
- ασυνάρτητος adj (tending to digress from the main point; rambling)
- διαλογικός adj (using reason and argument rather than intuition)
Swedish
1 entries- diskursiv adj (using reason and argument rather than intuition)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
What role did these discursive changes play in the revolution?
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Tom wrote me a discursive letter from prison.
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Mayor Jackson's speech was long and discursive.
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