confab
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Mr. Warsh’s speech Friday at the Kansas City Fed’s annual confab at Jackson Hole, Wyo., should put all that to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
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
Petro, in turn, called the confab “very positive” and said it had an “optimistic and constructive tone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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
He'd confabbed with several Bakery men in this city, and was about to make a deal.
From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells
Mr. Percival was at home; and, without waiting to be announced, Ellery sprang up the stairs to the little sanctum where the two had confabbed on many a day.
From Jewel Weed by Harrison Fisher
They confabbed in the centre of the clearing, and then hailed the table in the strange tongue.
From The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer
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 L. T. Meade
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
"What are you boys confabbing about?" cried Belle, coming up, with a box of candy in her hand.
From Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret by Edward Stratemeyer
