conferred
Example Sentences
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But Amy Bodek, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning, confirmed that county officials conferred with the oil company on a development plan.
From Los Angeles Times
"The next morning, it was clear that Maxwell had conferred with her royal chum because she told me: 'You did well. The prince had fun.'"
From BBC
I will therefore no longer use my title or the honours which have been conferred upon me.
From BBC
Whatever costs—in time, money and potentially even personal liberty—these legal actions bring may be more than offset by the halo of martyrdom conferred on the defendant.
The Americans who drafted and ratified this sentence plainly understood that it conferred citizenship upon American-born children of aliens.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
