pourparler

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Noun
  • The Italian association was among the organizers of the event alongside Confindustria Veneto Est and consultancy The European House Ambrosetti, or TEHA Group.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Born in Soviet-era Ukraine and educated at Harvard and Stanford in the US, Dmitriev worked as a consultant at American consultancy firm McKinsey and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.
    Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The government shutdown is entering day 20 with no serious negotiations underway to bring it to an end.
    NPR, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
  • So while the president can make his priorities for negotiations clear, there is no guarantee that China will listen.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The bargaining unit would include workers across production, food service, box office and door staff at all four venues.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
  • More recently, Justice Brian Hagedorn stepped away from a case regarding the Act 10 public bargaining law, while Justice Janet Protasiewicz rejected calls to recuse from the case.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The discourse came to a head when Prime Video India responded with a photo of Jeremiah holding the ring during the show's third and final season.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In ad campaigns, television shows, and even in political discourse, the myth of the cowboy is inherently good, inherently brave, inherently tied to the (American) land.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 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 28 Oct. 2025.

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