talk at

Verb

Meaning

To speak with (someone) without truly listening to their response or interacting meaningfully.

(slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To speak with; to have a conversation with.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

All staff signed the Official Secrets Act (1939) and a 1942 security warning emphasised the importance of discretion even within Bletchley itself: "Do not talk at meals. Source: Internet

BEEFING UP: Our kids studied pedigrees and bulls and who was out of who, all to prepare for the sales talk at junior nationals, where they take their heifer and her pedigree and try to sell her to a couple of adults. Source: Internet

Catherine told him it would be better if he took off his boots and ate something, after which they could talk at length. Source: Internet

During his Chancellor's Speaker Series talk at University of Massachusetts Lowell on December 7, 2012, King indicated that he was writing a crime novel about a retired policeman being taunted by a murderer. Source: Internet

Kagan's speech at the University of Wisconsin, Sotomayor's speech at the University of Rhode Island, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's talk at Montclair State University were all live streamed. Source: Internet

Dijkstra's paper was not widely noticed until Leslie Lamport's invited talk at the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC ) in 1983. Source: Internet

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