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pourparler

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Definition of pourparler

as in consultancy

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Mad Solutions and Irth are now developing a pipeline spanning original Arabic projects, some of which are talent-driven, as well as third-party development and consultancy assignments.

— Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Michael Tyrimos is the Founder/CEO of Capacitor Partners, an operations and technology consultancy that transforms large-scale enterprises.

— Michael Tyrimos, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of consultancy

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This past legislative session, Linehan said negotiations broke down at the last minute to ensure nurse-to-patient ratios were met at each unit level.

— Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
The negotiations were followed by dinner with the Russian leader, according to a Kremlin press briefing.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of negotiation

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That ultimately led to a courtroom battle when the city argued a new bargaining agreement was in place.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
Johnson looked around the room during the bargaining session and counted 11 firefighters who had already been hired by other departments and were expected to leave Hialeah.

— Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of bargaining

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Democratic socialists were largely confined to the outer edges of political discourse.

— Steven Sloan, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
But then the season ended, and then there were midterms, and then the semester came to a close, resetting the discourse until the next football column appears.

— Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 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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