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meeting of the minds

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  1. Agreement, concord, as in The teachers and the headmaster had a meeting of the minds regarding smoking in school. This expression uses meet in the sense of “arrive at mutual agreement,” as clergyman Edward B. Pusey did in a letter of 1851: “Devout minds, of every school ... meet at least in this.”


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As I got older and returned home from college for the holidays, I would join Gigi and my cousins Caroline and Elizabeth at Olive Garden for a meeting of the minds.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

But clearly, they had reached some sort of meeting of the minds.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2023

"We would like to resolve this issue," said Mr Malaya, but admitted that "progress is slow and there is, at present, no meeting of the minds".

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2023

It is a meeting of the minds — and the voices.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

Surely the generals could come to some meeting of the minds.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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