thrash out
phrasal verb
thrashed out; thrashing out; thrashes out
: to talk about (something) in order to make a decision, find a solution, etc.
They had a meeting to thrash out their problems.
thrash out a plan
Examples of thrash out in a Sentence
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In 2025 — or sometime in 2026, if Congress’s aversion to meeting critical fiscal deadlines is any guide — congressional leaders and the next president will be thrashing out a solution to this entirely predictable tax dilemma.
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Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
After months of debate about how to regulate companies like OpenAI, lawmakers from the EU’s three branches of government—the Parliament, Council, and Commission—spent more than 36 hours in total thrashing out the new legislation between Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
But, especially on AI, the specifics being thrashed out in the U.S. are more evolved.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 July 2023
There’s a school of thought that the agreement thrashed out by leaders including George W. Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy was itself a strategic mistake that paved the way for the current conflict.
—Natalia Drozdiak, Fortune, 11 July 2023
And, whereas Rheinmetall could expect to spend two or three years thrashing out a deal with the government before the war in Ukraine, agreements are now tied up in as little as four months.
—Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 10 July 2023
In this way, Beijing’s revolutionary Olympic selection process could be the opening the world needs to thrash out the moral status of scientific advances just over the horizon.
—Dov Fox, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
After months of debate about how to regulate companies like OpenAI, lawmakers from the EU’s three branches of government—the Parliament, Council, and Commission—spent more than 36 hours in total thrashing out the new legislation between Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
But, especially on AI, the specifics being thrashed out in the U.S. are more evolved.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 19 July 2023
There’s a school of thought that the agreement thrashed out by leaders including George W. Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy was itself a strategic mistake that paved the way for the current conflict.
—Natalia Drozdiak, Fortune, 11 July 2023
And, whereas Rheinmetall could expect to spend two or three years thrashing out a deal with the government before the war in Ukraine, agreements are now tied up in as little as four months.
—Frederik Pleitgen, CNN, 10 July 2023
In this way, Beijing’s revolutionary Olympic selection process could be the opening the world needs to thrash out the moral status of scientific advances just over the horizon.
—Dov Fox, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2022
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