pourparler

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Noun
  • Today, Rachel Strouse, 31, a brand and operations manager for HR consultancy firm, The Shiftly, lives in Indianapolis with her 10-year-old daughter, Stella.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Prior to that, the ESSEC Business School graduate was an associate principal at consultancy McKinsey & Company for nearly 10 years.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The president has also worked out agreements for other countries, including Indonesia, to step up their agriculture imports amid negotiations.
    Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The forward has expressed disinterest in being used as a scapegoat for Golden State, which is why the negotiations have not made any progress given both parties are reluctant to blink first.
    Valentina Martinez, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As the exclusive bargaining representative of NBA players, the NBPA licenses agents and thereby gives them the legal right to represent players in contract negotiations.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The first return to the bargaining table since the actors’ 2023 strike will begin some time next year ahead of the current SAG-AFTRA deal’s June 30, 2026 expiration date.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Out of roughly 400 technical journals active in 1965, only about 20 remained by 1969, indicating a near-cessation of formal scientific discourse.
    Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The assassination of popular conservative commentator Charlie Kirk last week sent shockwaves throughout the United States, sparking new discourse on a growing wave of violence that risks normalizing the use of force to achieve political aims.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Davis is a magnetic front man, and the Roadhouse Band is an intoxicatingly raucous live outfit, but the constraints of the setup suited his new material, which is suffused with listlessness and yearning, dark jokes and wordy disquisitions on desire.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • As Schumer told it in his modest New York City apartment over gluten-free cookies (and disquisitions about digestive issues), he’s been in that place most of his adult life.
    Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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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“Pourparler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pourparler. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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