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This is one aspect of the "cocktail party effect," whereby a listener with normal hearing can attend to different conversations in turn or concentrate on one speaker despite the surrounding babble.
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If she left him, though, her children would be having a different conversation in that kitchen or bar she'd dreamed up.
"This new approach from the Labour leadership opens up a real opportunity for a different conversation in British politics about hard-won freedoms," she said.
Associates of Mr. Comey describe a far different conversation, in which Mr. Trump asks Mr. Comey to pledge his loyalty, and he demurs.
And they share that it's opened up a completely different conversation in the hospital, where doctors and nurse teams work much more collaboratively.
"One thing that we learned over two years is that there's a whole different conversation in Washington than there is out here," said David Axelrod, the president's senior adviser.
Because we're going to have a different conversation in this space -- about the violent and senseless nature of the act that took his life, about trying to change course when those around you might not embrace such a change, about dying young and black in America, about getting the hell out of Dodge if at all possible.
Often, people don't realize that retirement planning is a different conversation in comparison to talking about accumulation.
First, "no" doesn't always mean "no". (Yes. There are situations in which "no" does mean "no". But that's a different conversation). In these cases, "no" may just mean "We've never done that before.
They have the numbers to do what they want and by this time next year we could be having a completely different conversation in a completely different country.
Sherlock calls Lestrade "brown as a nut", a phrase taken word-for-word from a different conversation in A Study in Scarlet.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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