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talk through

verb

  1. (adverb) to discuss (a problem or situation) in detail

  2. (preposition) to explain to (a person) all the stages of a process

    ask a friend to talk you through the exercise

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Families that visit must talk through a partition.

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Bob Costas sits down with Tom Verducci to talk through his decision to retire from play-by-play announcing and reflect on his career.

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Like every morning, the team are here to talk through the cases that will face them in the day ahead, and a familiar theme pops up.

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Often, these feelings weren’t specifically or solely connected to the hysterectomy itself; rather, they were related to cultural context that surround the procedure, and the reluctance of doctors to talk through it as a viable, and possibly desirable, option.

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I convinced them to let me take them to lunch and just talk through what our vision of how to tell the story would be.

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