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Recent Examples of happy talk
The morning crew engages in cinnamon happy talk.
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Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
His team projected lots of ideas and happy talk.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
There was no more happy talk of childhood.
—Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2021
But one of the risks the Dems have is that more happy talk about the economy risks them looking really out of touch.
—Maeve Reston, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
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Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 7 May 2021
His team projected lots of ideas and happy talk.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
There was no more happy talk of childhood.
—Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2021
But one of the risks the Dems have is that more happy talk about the economy risks them looking really out of touch.
—Maeve Reston, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
See all Example Sentences for happy talk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for happy talk
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Or take a job with a micromanaging boss in exchange for a higher salary?Morgan Smith, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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Boston Medical Center is looking for partners who might want to share their solar energy with the hospital's patients in exchange for a higher federal tax credit or reimbursement.Martha Bebinger, NPR, 9 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, Tusk has continued to emphasize his dedication to fostering dialogue, including meetings with key leaders such as Friedrich Merz, head of Germany's CDU party, who recently visited Kyiv.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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This process allows spending less energy on an in-depth initial dialogue by separating actual transaction from fraudulent ones.Dmitry Mishunin, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The debate over how to classify the West India Regiments—whether as British subjects and soldiers or as enslaved men—continued until 1807.Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Actuarial data will likely end the debate if and when autonomous vehicles are demonstrably safer than those piloted by humans.Michael Khouw, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2024
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Officers who were staging for the undercover operation reported that Schoonover engaged in small talk with them with before entering a room at the hotel.Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
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Sometimes the cars stacked up as people made small talk with her at the drive-through window.John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Its population of 1,500 is outnumbered almost 10:1 by the yaks grazing nearby.Liam Freeman, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
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Two brown bears, a lion, a couple of yaks, five cockatoos, 25 pheasants and 40 mandarin ducks.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Happy talk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/happy%20talk. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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