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Recent Examples of dialectical
Pay attention to what treatment specialty your therapist provides: Some offer specific approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy or dialectical behavior therapy.
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Bryan Cochran, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2024
The clinic provides dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, a form of talk therapy that aids in emotional regulation, for local youth and their families.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
Liberalism has evolved in a dialectical fashion as people’s concerns have changed.
—Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
The most common form of treatment is talk therapy, experts said, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).
—Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
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Bryan Cochran, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2024
The clinic provides dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, a form of talk therapy that aids in emotional regulation, for local youth and their families.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
Liberalism has evolved in a dialectical fashion as people’s concerns have changed.
—Alan S. Kahan, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
The most common form of treatment is talk therapy, experts said, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).
—Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dialectical
Adjective
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The crash of the medical jet came just two days after an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a regional American Airlines jet near Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.—
Jack Moore,
ABC News,
2 Feb. 2025
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Despite concerns raised by regional lawmakers, five new round-trip flights were authorized in a major aviation bill signed into law last spring.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
2 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The site also uses some nonstandard conventions, one of which cost me at least a half hour in data entry time.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
4 Feb. 2025
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And Telegram itself uses standard crypto algorithms developed and certified by US government agencies, just in nonstandard ways.—
Andy Greenberg,
WIRED,
27 Jan. 2021
Adjective
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What is a Green Beret? Green Beret is the colloquial name used for members of the U.S. Army Special Forces.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA TODAY,
2 Jan. 2025
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Purple group — colloquial suffixes (CORE, GATE, MANIA, PILLED) No perfect game, but that's nine wins in a row.—
Kris Holt,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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In The Kitchen, Wesker tracked the decorum from friendly badinage to hostile vernacular that co-workers sustain just to get through the day.—
Armond White,
National Review,
30 Oct. 2024
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Tennis is a difficult business; only a tiny sample size of its athletes achieve enough to become part of the vernacular.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
The Athletic,
26 Dec. 2024
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“Dialectical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialectical. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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