Topic in a sentence as a noun

**** that is too boring to be the topic of a news story at the top of HN.

Pique it enough that you'll go on and research the topic in greater detail.

The reason I didn't go into detail about it is that I'm not an expert on the topic.

The speaker's job is to pique your interest in a topic during that 18 minutes.

You can find the same topics discussed all over the internet, in every language.

Pick any topic you want: a hobby you have, a book youve read, a project you worked onanything.

While we're on the topic, I'm just going to say that those "anonymous" job postings here on YC drive me nuts"YCW11 company hiring front end dev!

I've written a lot about this topic, but let's see if I can sum it up:* Politics are way more important than most of what we talk about.

I don't care about that answer, and I especially don't care about some random internet commenter's opinon on that topic.

Jobs is one of the hacker community's sacred cows, and we wouldn't accept this level of sanctification on any other topic.

At the beginning of the 5 minutes you shouldnt assume anything about what I know, and at the end I should understand whatever is most important this topic.

It honestly doesn't feel like a topic for a physics journal even though a reliable positive result would have profound implications for physics.

I know a LOT of people of various ages who have these problems, so I have been prompted for more than two decades to dig into the serious medical literature[1] on this topic.

With all due respect, one thing that gets really tiresome on this board is the "OMG, this person is soo stupid because they don't know nearly as much as I do about this one particular topic" tone in this comment.

Topic definitions

noun

the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love"

See also: subject theme

noun

some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police"

See also: subject issue matter