Librarians used topic maps to relate authors, subjects, and locations across the archive.

During the meeting, she dropped the topic after noticing everyone's discomfort.

Whenever the meeting becomes tense, she drops the topic and steers the conversation elsewhere.

He kept dropping the topic whenever the conversation turned political.

The recent film became the main topic of conversation at the office.

She topicalises minor complaints to redirect the conversation to her agenda.

By topicalising the long-forgotten policy, the council sparked a renewed public debate.

During the meeting the conversation turned topicless, and people began sharing unrelated anecdotes.

In the medieval manuscript, the author returns repeatedly to the central topick of moral philosophy.

The linguistics paper argues that topicalisation of the object creates a different information structure.