confer

Example Sentences

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"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

If Freeman is elected, he and the Hall will confer about which team should be represented on his cap.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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

Occasionally they confer, but mostly Monica makes one of two marks on her clipboard—either a checkmark, I think, or just a line, a little dash.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle