confab
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Recent moves in Treasurys have raised the stakes for Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh as he prepares to deliver his debut speech from the annual central-banking confab at Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Other key aspects to emerge from the confab could show points of contention within the FOMC.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
South by Southwest, the March Texas confab for music, film and tech, was among the first festivals to feel a pinch this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 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
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 then went and confabbed for some minutes with the manageress, and returned.
From Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan
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
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 confabbed for a while, and as Piddie comes out he's still explainin' how he's sure he don't know, but most likely Mr. Robert understands all about it.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln
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 all confabbing about so mysteriously?
From A City Schoolgirl And Her Friends by May Baldwin
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