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Then Braid, who had been conferring with lawyers, stepped into the waiting room.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Hutchinson, who had been conferring via an interpreter with the K.K.A. ground force and couldn’t see the target himself, then gave the AC-130 an “updated description of the compound of interest.”

From New York Times • May 17, 2016

He had been conferring with Denver’s athletic director, Peg Bradley-Doppes, about other candidates last summer, when she said to him, “What would it take to get you out here?”

From New York Times • May 1, 2010

They were joined, some 70 min. later, by Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had been conferring in the President's family quarters.

From Time Magazine Archive

If it had been conferring a favor on her, to ask her to stay with me, be sure I never would have uttered a persuasive word.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various