meeting of minds

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Following an unexpected meeting of minds between presidents Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro, three Colombian drug kingpins find themselves the target of a joint US-Colombia manhunt.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

“There seems to be this strange meeting of minds between the Americans and Russians over what Europe should look like,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

"It was clear there was a meeting of minds and a partnership that's going to work for both sides," he told BBC News.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024

Audiences get a kick out of the way the princes try to show each other up, but Creel has come to see the number as a meeting of minds, not a clash of wills.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

The acceptance would stand, for as there had been a meeting of minds when the letter was put into the postoffice, the offeree could not afterwards withdraw his offer.

From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Bolles, Albert Sidney