Definitions
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- noun A lengthy, often enjoyable conversation or discussion.
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- noun informal A
session ofenthusiastic discussion orgossip .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The focus on youth unemployment and inequality at the annual talkfest in Davos last week was a clear indication that the power-brokers in the global economy are finally realising that something has gone badly awry.
We can now see the true cost of globalisation | Observer editorial 2012
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That could give attendees at the annual talkfest a little room to look beyond the immediate.
Davos Forecast: Crowded With a Chance of Optimism Anjali Cordeiro 2011
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Rather than take questions and discussion from opposing views, these Senators pad their talking points and alleged talkfest with comments and questions that support their views.
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How and why do people like David Gregory get jobs hosting these talkfest shows?
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In the fourth segment of this talkfest, Miranda Lambert discusses her nine CMA nominations and the fact that, for part of her childhood, her family was homeless and bankrupt. —
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Her appearance Wednesday on LA's very high profile right-wing radio talkfest, the John and Ken Show, provided a dramatic case in point.
William Bradley: Harsh Realm: The Legacy That Meg Whitman Invokes 2010
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Instead, Amanpour -- who makes her debut on the three-decade-old Sunday morning political-affairs talkfest this weekend -- will commute from Manhattan for the time being.
For Christiane Amanpour, commute will be shorter than some she's had 2010
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Besides that and a few other good scenes, however, this film gets bogged down into an overlong talkfest.
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The day's next green talkfest is a conversation between Rosie Boycott and Nicholas Stern, the economist and life peer who authored 2006's Stern Review, which made the case for cutting our emissions on the basis of hard-headed logic: to do so now would take a tiny fraction of the world's cash and resources, whereas sitting back and then trying to cope with a boiling planet would almost literally cost the Earth.
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Her appearance Wednesday on LA's very high profile right-wing radio talkfest, the John and Ken Show, provided a dramatic case in point.
William Bradley: Harsh Realm: The Legacy That Meg Whitman Invokes 2010
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