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Another unresolved issue that banks have been powwowing about is how to estimate legal losses nine quarters into the future.

From Reuters • Dec. 9, 2014

Known as “braucherei” in the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, powwowing is a set of magic and religious practices brought to America by the earliest German immigrants centuries ago.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2014

“It wasn’t discussed,” says Casey Brown, a York native and teacher of powwowing and other holistic healing techniques.

From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2014

Sure, there’s Gingrich powwowing with Hillary Clinton and praising the individual mandate, but there’s also Gingrich looking on as Chris Farley gives a speech to the entire House Republican conference in Newtonian guise.

From Time • Dec. 14, 2011

I asked him, after this period, how he had deceived his people by the art of powwowing, or jugglery.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe