confer
verb (used without object)
to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation.
were conferring
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past progressiveof confer.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He also was impressed with the attention to detail on the set, like on the day when Taylor asked how Mary Lincoln would enter a room where Lincoln and Stanton were conferring.
From Los Angeles Times β Mar. 15, 2024
The meeting means the lawyers were conferring with a Gubarev confidant who had supplied dossier information to Mr. Danchenko.
From Washington Times β Nov. 7, 2021
Police and intelligence officials were conferring Wednesday on how to handle possible violence due to the start of the workplace virus mandate and the twin demonstrations.
From Seattle Times β Oct. 13, 2021
“They were conferring over lunch in a restaurant near the China-Vietnam border when several men speaking Chinese ordered them into a car,” Wang’s daughter, Ti-Anna Wang, recounted in a Post op-ed.
From Washington Post β Jan. 31, 2016
Mrs. Davis had come in, and she and the nurse were conferring as to Vesta's condition—standing close beside her.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
