confab
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Powell has stated that he will stay on as Fed Chair if no replacement is confirmed by the June confab.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Seeing everyone crammed into his office for a howdy-host confab looks like the coolest family get-together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
But at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual conservative confab held this year in suburban Dallas, the ongoing conflict with Iran seemed relatively remote.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2026
If things get too exciting, and action seems imminent, players will frequently call timeout to have a confab in the middle of the field.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2026
While Jerry G. talked to Lord Elephant, some five miles away another important confab was taking place.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
They confabbed with doctors about his condition and translated their diagnoses.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2016
They walked round and round the ugly, ill-kept lawn; they walked under the beautiful trees, entwined their arms round each other’s waists, and confabbed and confabbed.
From Girls of the Forest by Meade, L. T.
They confabbed for a while, and as Piddie comes out he's still explainin' how he's sure he don't know, but most likely Mr. Robert understands all about it.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster
They confabbed in the centre of the clearing, and then hailed the table in the strange tongue.
From The White Waterfall by Dwyer, James Francis
He then went and confabbed for some minutes with the manageress, and returned.
From Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Thurstan, Violetta
In the film, which is part adventurous lark and part character study, Ballesta controls the frame as the unassuming Urtubia, who began as a simple bricklayer and rose to confabbing with Fidel Castro.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
The Twitter conversation was dominated by confabbing about Facebook; many of those occupying the fringe forums were first exposed to the sinister theories that now obsess them on Facebook.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2021
Who else would spend the morning after the premiere of his new film, the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, confabbing with Angela Merkel about the international refugee crisis?
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2016
But days of private confabbing failed to spin a single propeller.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as for She Yüeh, P'ing Erh came just now and called her out of doors and there they are outside confabbing in a mysterious way!
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
