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pourparler

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Definition of pourparler

as in consultancy

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After moving to California in the early 2000s, Bennett started a creative consultancy before cofounding beauty incubator Hatch Beauty in 2010.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
Avoid trying new, untested recipes, said etiquette coach Maryanne Parker, founder of Manor of Manners, an international business, social and youth etiquette consultancy in San Diego.

— Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of consultancy

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When negotiations began, many firefighters viewed the contract as an opportunity to address departures and improve retention.

— Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
The independent dispute resolution system, or IDR, created under the No Surprises Act, was an arbitration process intended to serve as a last-ditch safeguard when negotiations between insurers and providers failed.

— Christian Swann, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of negotiation

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In 1999, the then-69-year-old great-grandmother helped obtain extra government benefits for workers who lost their jobs in a citrus freeze and stared across the contract bargaining table at lawyers for the giant Gallo wine company.

— James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
After four stalemated bargaining meetings on February 11, 2023, the Buena Park union went on strike, slipping out one by one before the second show of the day.

— Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of bargaining

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The Cheesecake Factory notably did not acknowledge the political discourse whirling around it, and did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on the Tuscan mom aesthetic.

— Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026
Or perhaps this cloud is a textual reduction of a larger discourse—words extracted from customer reviews?

— Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of discourse

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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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