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Now released publicly, the album radiates companionship, with the guitars — acoustic and electric, picking and sliding — entwined in amiable colloquies.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

You hear it deployed in corporate colloquies, political speeches and school prospectuses as if it were a magic wand.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2021

Despite a sense of the historical importance – and members’ efforts to dramatize the hearing with outbursts and impassioned colloquies – the mood was subdued.

From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2019

The pacing of this domestic reckoning, divided into a series of heated colloquies between Nora and the loved ones she left behind, is breathless.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2019

During the Carolingian period it was the seat of no fewer than 16 imperial councils or colloquies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various