pourparler

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Noun
  • While weighing similar moves, Thailand is not as desperate as the Philippines, said Jitsai Santaputra of the energy consultancy The Lantau Group in Bangkok.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Also, housing sales since the pandemic have seen strong growth, with a marginal slowdown in 2025, according to data from real estate consultancy Knight Frank.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The union and workers agreed to return to work after the company agreed to return for two days of face-to-face contract negotiations beginning April 9.
    Logan Smith, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • In a Saturday news release, UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said JBS agreed to meet on Thursday and Friday to resume negotiations.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In parts of Europe, including France and Germany, wage bargaining between employers and labor unions often takes place at the sectoral level, rather than at the individual-company level, and collective-bargaining agreements set pay levels and work conditions for entire industries.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Once Stutzman wraps up these joint negotiations for the WGA East and West, she will likely be needed at another bargaining table.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The matter is also being discussed in public discourse.
    Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This distinction was missing both from popular discourse, the academics felt, and from an influential definition of antisemitism associated with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which lists numerous examples of antisemitism related to criticism of Israel.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Recently, at a candidates forum outside Dallas, Larry Brock expressed the following sentiments as part of a lengthy disquisition on the Muslim faith.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • There was little time to draw breath between art classes, violin making, and disquisitions on John Ruskin.
    Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2026
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 6 Apr. 2026.

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