Thesaurus results for TALKED OVER

talked over

verb

past tense of talk over

as in discussed

to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion your father and I will have to talk it over before agreeing to let you go on the class trip

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Recent Examples of talked over The two then talked over each other. — Noah Alcala Bach, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Apr. 2026 Good ideas no longer die because the loudest person talked over them. — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 For months, Smith did not see her husband at all and only talked over the phone. — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026 Vance tried to say something more, but Stephanopoulos talked over him and went to a commercial break. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025 Big ones, small ones, and anything in between could be talked over while Mercury transits your 9th House of Learning. — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026 Steeped in dread and indignation, Watcher is feminist horror that imagines what Rear Window would be like if Jimmy Stewart were constantly talked over and dismissed. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025 During Wednesday’s hearing, Bessent frequently talked over Waters, trying to correct the California congresswoman’s message about tariffs and inflation. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026 Near the end of the debate, co-moderator and San Francisco Examiner editor-in-chief Schuyler Hudak Prionas groaned as candidates talked over each other while trying to answer a question that was supposed to elicit a yes or no response. — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026

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The last Senate hearing with sitting justices was in 2011, when former Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia discussed the constitutional role of the federal judiciary.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2026
Thune, the Senate majority leader, spoke with the Kentucky senator by phone on Monday and discussed national security issues and other topics, a Thune spokesperson told CNBC.

— Kevin Breuninger,Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 7 July 2026

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Georgia’s most influential dishes could be debated vigorously, but there’s no question that food has been an integral part of the South’s culture.

— Olivia Wakim, AJC.com, 4 July 2026
Roberts noted that race and citizenship had been fiercely debated in courts, speeches, Congress and battlefields because of Black Americans’ fight for freedom from slavery.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026

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