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English to English adjective
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Topical. |  | source: webster1913
noun
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the subject matter of a conversation or discussion | | Example: he didn't want to discuss that subject
it was a very sensitive topic
his letters were always on the theme of love
source: wordnet30
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some situation or event that is thought about | | Example: he kept drifting off the topic
he had been thinking about the subject for several years
it is a matter for the police
source: wordnet30
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One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory. | | source: webster1913
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