confer

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But, it said, court decisions, the county’s Employee Relations Commission and the law “require that the County ... meet and confer with labor partners about the impacts before documents are shared. Those discussions are underway.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

"Individuals recovering from severe viral pneumonia, particularly those with smoking history, may benefit from enhanced lung cancer surveillance, and preventing severe infection through vaccination may confer indirect cancer protection benefits."

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

To read the word regulate to confer some independent tariff authority would undermine that clear legislative purpose.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

He also suggested that Microsoft’s tight relationship with OpenAI doesn’t confer the advantages it once did, especially as the ChatGPT maker faces stiffer competition from Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

This was a command on which he tried to confer urgent masculine authority.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan