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pourparler

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Definition of pourparler

as in consultancy

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Steve Blinn, a senior consultant at logistics and supply chain consultancy PLG Consulting, argued in LinkedIn commentary that the audience made the remark especially damaging, regardless of intent.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2026
Kristin Ginn, who left Microsoft earlier in 2026 to start trnsfrmAItn, an AI-adoption consultancy, uses AI to help with proposals, pricing, strategy, and other work and is exploring an AI agent to perform part of a labor-intensive client process.

— Barbara Booth, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of consultancy

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The union engaged in negotiations with the former owners for one to two years.

— Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Thompson serves as liaison counsel for the multidistrict litigation, while Hoyle was a member of the 3M settlement negotiation team.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026

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Last month, the labor group filed two unfair labor practice charges with the California Public Employment Relations Board against the CSU, alleging bad-faith bargaining and unlawful interference with workers’ rights to rally.

— Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
The union appealed that stay on bargaining to the Illinois Supreme Court, but the appeal was denied, according to the union.

— Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of bargaining

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One supervisor gave a brief disquisition on the history of corporate personhood, how it was created from a headnote in an 1886 Supreme Court case.

— Dan Kaufman, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026
Recently, at a candidates forum outside Dallas, Larry Brock expressed the following sentiments as part of a lengthy disquisition on the Muslim faith.

— Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of disquisition

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And though their scenes together are way too brief, the Older and Younger Elliott bull sessions give the movie both a spiky-humor rush and a sense of genuine grounding.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
The newspaper’s staff won the Pulitzer for breaking news for a series of stories on a secret audio recording that exposed Los Angeles City Council members scheming in a crass and racist bull session about political power in the city.

— Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023

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