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

Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon also partnered to launch digital tokens that confer ownership of money-market funds managed by many of the biggest investment firms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 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

Next he went about town to confer with other doctors.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy