conferring

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Conferring with the children, you find out what makes them tick, what they want in life and where they want to be.

From Washington Times • Oct. 16, 2018

Conferring each degree, the university president, Drew Gilpin Faust, urged graduates to use their newfound powers to serve their community.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2014

Conferring in Leicester on wage increases for 2,500,000 workers, the Engineering Union begged for wartime solidarity, opposed all strike action, said union "reestablishment" could await the war's end.

From Time Magazine Archive

Conferring among themselves, Israeli and Egyptian officers ought to be able to arrive at workable truce lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thou wilt object—why have I not ere this Sought out the sage himself, the Nazarene Who wrought this cure, inquiring at the source, Conferring with the frankness that befits?

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various