pourparler

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Noun
  • The brand marked the Atlantis opening with a dinner where guests included Hanan Mazouzi Sobati, founder of the Arabian Gazelles, an all-female supercar club in the Middle East, and Rosemin Madhavji, entrepreneur and founder of the luxury consultancy RR&Co.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Schiller runs a security consultancy called KS Global Group and media reports in 2018 said he was paid handsomely by the Republican National Committee for unspecified consulting work.
    Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The 36-year-old's contributions to the Dodgers becoming baseball's first back-to-back champions in a quarter-century likely won't be forgotten for a long time, and perhaps during contract negotiations, will be a present reminder.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • For now, those negotiations remain uncertain.
    Nik Popli, Time, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Again leading bargaining for the union will be Ellen Stutzman, the WGA West executive director who helmed the talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers amid a 148-day strike in 2023.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The order applies to federal employees in programs or offices where the plaintiff unions have members or bargaining units.
    The NPR Network, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Trump's relationship with both sports and celebrity culture has been a recurring feature of his political brand, and his responses to public figures like Swift often ignite widespread debate and online discourse.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Both Seehorn and Gilligan have stressed to THR that Carol Sturka is not an attempt to relitigate the Skyler White discourse.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 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 18 Nov. 2025.

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