confer
Example Sentences
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These are structural properties that survived billions of years of optimization because maintaining them conferred advantage.
If Freeman is elected, he and the Hall will confer about which team should be represented on his cap.
From Los Angeles Times
But she also noted that Mastercard and Visa have “two-sided networks across billions of consumers and hundreds of millions of merchants” that confer major incumbency advantages.
From MarketWatch
“The scientific evidence shows that one dose is all that’s needed to confer immunity to adolescents to provide long-term protection against HPV that causes cervical cancer,” Simon said.
From Salon
Alternative statutory paths remain available to the administration, while none confer the same breadth or immediacy as IEEPA.
From Barron's
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