thresh out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer until elections can be held, later also convened at Scoon's to thresh out the problems of their succession.
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The more plausible explanation was that they wanted time to thresh out in private conferences the agenda for the summit.
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The delegates had dispersed into committees to thresh out compromises when a U.S.
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Though both provisions slid easily enough through the House, the Senate called for total deregulation of gas prices and rejected the oil tax, leaving it to a joint conference committee to thresh out a compromise.
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Now the brothers had met to thresh out the situation; and a day came when Raymond lunched with his friend and fellow sportsman, Arthur Waldron, of North Hill House, and furnished him with particulars.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
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