dialectical

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Recent Examples on the Web The most common form of treatment is talk therapy, experts said, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023 Among the host of services, Friendly House’s therapists and counselors offer a variety of treatments, such as motivational enhancement therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and varied somatic therapies. Caroline Brew, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023 Sembène is perhaps the most finely rhetorical filmmaker ever, and scenes of verbal disputation are the most distinctive feature of his work—a dialectical method that proves to be both essentially political and essentially cinematic. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023 This dialectical mission is responsible for the spiraling self-consciousness that is the most distinctive (and, to some readers, the most annoying) aspect of his writing. Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for dialectical 
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Adjective
  • In Pictures | Getty Images Cologne’s higher regional court on Wednesday ruled against Deutsche Bank in a long-standing legal dispute with shareholders who alleged the lender underpaid in its multi-stage acquisition of German retail bank Postbank.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Managing Data Center Energy Consumption Geofencing helps manage data center’s energy consumption by dynamically adjusting resources based on regional traffic demand.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Despite these guidelines, healthcare providers still take measurements in nonstandard positions — with the arm resting on a patient’s lap or hanging at their side, according to study authors.
    Don Rauf, EverydayHealth.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Reported Earnings Growth Kirkpatrick uses a nonstandard calculation for earnings growth, which compares operating earnings over the last four fiscal quarters to total operating earnings for the four-quarter period ending one quarter earlier.
    Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • The oceanic pole of inaccessibility goes by a more colloquial name: Point Nemo.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The term shart is a colloquial reference for a wet fart, or when watery stool accidentally slips out while passing gas.
    Cristina Mutchler, Health, 6 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Plus, over-the-top emergencies like dam breaks, earthquakes, tsunamis and a pirate attack on a cruise ship, at least when told in the procedural’s vernacular, are an escape from the more mundane horrors of daily life.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • If the substratum of the local and the vernacular is being erased in a metaphorical but also very literal sense by a voracious and extractive economic order, then the global subaltern’s rage must be given a voice and a place.
    Manuel Borja-Villel, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024

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