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n. - A person who takes part in a conversation; The performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk.

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  • Clearly, any art of reaching agreement through conversation is going to depend on an art of interpreting interlocutors.
  • A true interlocutor is willing to accept some level of burden.
  • The meme our illustrious interlocutor is faultily remembering is “information wants to be free.”
  • Instead, the interlocutor is saying that the author was himself anti-Catholic, and therefore all of his writings are to be avoided.
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