Douglas Rushkoff

We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

American Journalist

Henry Rollins

Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of her music. I do have her albums, and years ago, when I first heard her sing, I thought she was extraordinary. The tone of her voice, her phrasing, her raw appearance - these qualities were extremely captivating to me.

American Musician

Caterina Fake

One of the issues we face here in San Francisco and Silicon Valley is a sense that the people all around us are as conversant in startup and tech culture as we are. But we need to remember, and remind ourselves repeatedly, that we're a small minority in a larger population.

American Businesswoman

Chris Abani

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

Nigerian Author

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

American Activist

Antonio Garcia Martinez

Cubans can be as conversant as any Netflix-and-chill American about popular shows like 'House of Cards' or 'Black Mirror', and they drop allusions to the 'Lannisters' and 'Omar Little' constantly.

Knut Hamsun

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

Norwegian Author

Alan Alda

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

American Actor

Lois Lowry

I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.

American Writer

George Boole

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

Irish Mathematician

Use 'conversant' to show depth of knowledge on specific topics or skills.

Topic Familiarity

Implies active engagement or participation in discussions about a topic.

Active Interaction

'Conversant' suggests more than basic understanding but not necessarily expert-level.

Beyond Basics

Use 'conversant' to indicate someone's fluency in a language without being native-like.

Fluency Indicator

Shows high level of language skill, suitable for meaningful conversation.

Language Proficiency

Especially relevant for describing skills in multilingual environments or jobs.

Multi-Language Context

 because there was a law in the books that said, you know, cougars, lions, pot-bellied pigs were vicious animals. And so they changed laws because of this pig. It's pretty cool. This whole idea of exotic pets is kinda hot button, everybody is a little bit conversant in it, We always see something on the news about it. I wanted to do a piece

National Geographic...

 And the second implication is that the world will inevitably, as a consequence, become increasingly unfamiliar to us, because it'll be shaped by cultures and experiences and histories that we are not really familiar with, or conversant with.